Asta Bäck

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present six roadmaps of the anticipated developments of social media in three themes: society, companies, and local environment, and crystallize the results of the report into five main development lines triggered by social media.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the outcomes of a road-mapping research on social media project completed at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and discuss the potential transformations of social media in the virtual and physical spheres.

TL;DR: The Somus project as discussed by the authors studied the dynamics of information, knowledge and citizenship in an open and participative media environment and developed several social media services that enable collaboration between citizens and public agencies.

TL;DR: A heuristic framework is put forward for explaining how communication-related factors may adversely affect people's capacity to prepare for and respond to disasters to help researchers, policy makers, and practitioners in the field of disasters and crises to systematically identify individual, social-structural, and situational factors of vulnerability.

TL;DR: It is suggested that during the coronavirus pandemic, exposure to harmful information may have made people more vulnerable in six ways: by discouraging appropriate protective actions against catching/spreading the virus, by promoting the use of false (or harmful) remedies against the virus; and by victimising the alleged spreaders of the virus by harassment/hate speech.