Social Networks for Crisis Situation Updates
August 31, 2009 — BOULDER – The National Science Foundation has awarded more than $2 million to University of Colorado at Boulder researchers to take leading-edge investigations on the public’s use of social media during crisis situations to the next level of research and development.
The grant to assistant professor Leysia Palen and her colleagues in the department of computer science is aimed at developing a suite of specialized mobile and Web applications to help citizens and officials during times of disasters and large-scale emergencies. The four-year project will synthesize and augment citizen-generated information and corroborate it with authoritative sources.
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