Self organization of social networks study Tatiana Indina 2012
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- 1. Self-organization of social networks in emergency & crisis response in Russia PhD, Tatiana A. Indina Wilson Center, Kennan Institute March-2012
- 2. SELF-ORGANIZED NETWORKS: How social networks become organized in crisis situations? Russian cases Crowdsourcing movements: Can government trust crowds? How on line crowds can be enabled for emergency respond?
- 3. Disaster and crisis management problems: How individuals interact within network and with the government? How they become self-organized? How to increase effectiveness of the crisis response? How to connect crowd and crown in crisis? how can we use social media and crowd to help ? Improving communication between crowd and crown; how would government enable and disable crowds? Distribution of information in crisis: how does information flow? How to make communication and information exchange more efficient? How to make message work? Which are access points to the network? Developing successful messaging strategies; How to bring action offline - how to engage volunteers? Creating crowd sourcing regional leadership teams.
- 4. Research questions: Social media as a catalyst of crowd self-organization in emergency; how does s- media effects crowd behavior; Self-organized group behavior (Mechanisms of online and offline self-organization of social media users); Levels of engagement of online social media users to offline behavior; Communication and messaging inside the network (information gathering and dissemination); Identification and profiling of online leaders as a key access points to self-organized networks; Interaction between crowd and crown through social media in crisis;
- 5. Research steps: 1. Develop model of group Memory behavior and self- organization in crisis situations Goal CONSIOUSS SELF REGULATION MODEL OF Criteria BEHAVIOR AND DECISION Modeling system MAKING Result (Self regulation lab, PI RAO, achievement Russia) estimation Programmi STRUCTURE-FUNCTIONAL ng APPROACH: Result information Goal of the activity; Subjective model and Correction conditions; Program of the actions; Program Evaluation of results; realization
- 6. 2. Investigate which role Social networks play in group self-organization how does social media affects group self-organization? which factors determine social networks self-organization ?
- 7. 3. Analyze social networks self-organization in crisis response (communication patterns, information exchange, behavior and interaction)
- 8. Study of social networks behavior: What make people engaged in crowdsourcing activism? How social networks become self-organized in crisis situations? (key factors of success and failure of crowd mobilization); Mechanisms and group dynamics of communication within networks? Information flow and access points to the network; Switching from online to action: How can government enable crowds?
- 9. 4. Study of on line activism: Online activists and their role in enabling social networks; Motives which drive online leaders actions; Liability of their messaging and information; Psychological profiling and typology of online leaders.
- 11. Methodology: Social media monitoring (open source data); Content analysis of user generated content; Social network analysis; Structure equation models of users communication & behavior; Group sociometry; Experimental behavior models and observations; Psychological profiling of network leaders; Case studies (post event analysis);
- 12. Results: Model of self-organized behavior of social networks in crisis situation; Methods of identification and assessment online leaders (key competences model); Methods to evaluate and improve networks self-organization (communication, action, information exchange) in crisis response.
- 13. Where can be applied: New solutions for emergency communications increasing situational awareness and reactivity; Crowdsourcing alerts monitoring and evaluation; Communicating risks & disaster notifications (broadcast alerts; notification service; crisis mapping); Communication with communities; diaspora mobilization; Improving communication platforms for social media and government; Coordination citizen gathered information; Improving humanitarian and emergency response; Increasing citizen science &public involvement; Connecting state and local agencies, relief organizations, government agencies, social enterprise; researchers, general public and media for protecting human security; Global mapping (evaluation of indexes of self-organization potential of social networks across the countries: Russia, FSU, CA, USA); Training and development programs for specialists;
- 14. Contacts: Tatiana A. Indina E-mail: tatiana.indina@wilsoncenter.org skype: tatiana.indiana tel: 202-904-0941