07/30/08
Facebook, blogs are the new face of disaster info.
CU profs study how social networking plugs people in after emergencies
By Laura Snider
Before administrators at Virginia Tech officially identified the 32 victims shot and killed on the campus in April 2007, the names were already known, pieced together from bits of information scattered across the Internet.
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05/16/08
Crisis Informatics Team wins the Mike Meleshkin Award for the best Ph.D. student paper
The ISCRAM2008 Mike Meleshkin Award for Best PhD student paper went to the 'crisis informatics' PhD students team (Amanda L. Hughes, Sophia B. Liu and Sarah E. Vieweg) at Colorado University at Boulder. This group contributed no less than three excellent papers.
The Mike Meleshkin award for best ISCRAM Conference PhD student paper has been instituted in honor of our former co-worker, friend and Emergency Response Information Systems scholar Dr. Mikhail ‘Mike’ Meleshkin who passed away on April 18th, 2004. The award includes $500 and a free conference registration for ISCRAM2009.
Receiving the award at ISCRAM2008. In photo from left to right: Sophia Liu, Amanda Hughes, Sarah Vieweg, and Jonas Landgren (award chair).
The award winning papers include the following:
Hughes, Amanda, Leysia Palen, Jeanette Sutton, Sophia Liu, and Sarah Vieweg (2008). “Site-Seeing” in Disaster: An Examination of On-Line Social Convergence. Proceedings of the 2008 ISCRAM Conference,
Washington, DC. 
Liu, Sophia, Leysia Palen, Jeanette Sutton, Amanda Hughes, and Sarah Vieweg (2008). In Search of the Bigger Picture: The Emergent Role of On-Line Photo Sharing in Times of Disaster. Proceedings of the 2008 ISCRAM Conference, Washington, DC.
Vieweg, Sarah, Leysia Palen, Sophia Liu, Amanda Hughes, and Jeannette Sutton (2008). Collective Intelligence in Disaster: Examination of the Phenomenon in the Aftermath of the 2007 Virginia Tech Shooting. Proceedings of the 2008 ISCRAM Conference, Washington, DC.
05/03/08
ISCRAM 2008
The Crisis Informatics team will be attending ISCRAM 2008 (Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management), in Washington, DC. At the conference we will be presenting the following four papers:
Hughes, Amanda, Leysia Palen, Jeanette Sutton, Sophia Liu, and Sarah Vieweg (2008). “Site-Seeing” in Disaster: An Examination of On-Line Social Convergence. Proceedings of the 2008 ISCRAM Conference,
Washington, DC.
Liu, Sophia, Leysia Palen, Jeanette Sutton, Amanda Hughes, and Sarah Vieweg (2008). In Search of the Bigger Picture: The Emergent Role of On-Line Photo Sharing in Times of Disaster. Proceedings of the 2008 ISCRAM Conference, Washington, DC.
Sutton, Jeannette, Leysia Palen and Irina Shlovski (2008). Back-Channels on the Front Lines: Emerging Use of Social Media in the 2007 Southern California Wildfires. Proceedings of the 2008 ISCRAM Conference, Washington.
Vieweg, Sarah, Leysia Palen, Sophia Liu, Amanda Hughes, and Jeannette Sutton (2008). Collective Intelligence in Disaster: Examination of the Phenomenon in the Aftermath of the 2007 Virginia Tech Shooting. Proceedings of the 2008 ISCRAM Conference, Washington, DC.
05/02/08
Professor Palen Featured in New Scientist Article
Professor Leysia Palen and her work is featured in an article appearing in New Scientist this week: "Emergency 2.0 is coming to a website near you"! The article can be accessed online here:
04/15/08
U.C. Berkeley student's Twitter messages alerted world to his arrest in Egypt
By Bill Brand
BERKELEY _ When Egyptian police scooped up UC Berkeley graduate journalism student James Karl Buck, who was photographing a noisy demonstration, and dumped him in a jail cell last week, they didn't count on Twitter.
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