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Meri Dankenbring

Bio: Meri Dankenbring is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Crisis management & Social media. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 6 citations.

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01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: This survey of 1,024 German inhabitants is the first empirical study on people’s views on social media monitoring and surveillance in crisis management and finds the willingness to share data during an imminent threat depends mostly on the type of data.
Abstract: Social media is used during crises and disasters by state authorities and citizens to communicate and provide, gain and analyze information. Monitoring of platforms in such cases is both a well-established practice and a research area. The question, whether people are willing to renounce privacy in social media during critical incidents, or even allow surveillance in order to contribute to public security, remains unanswered. Our survey of 1,024 German inhabitants is the first empirical study on people’s views on social media monitoring and surveillance in crisis management. We find the willingness to share data during an imminent threat depends mostly on the type of data: a majority (63% and 67%, respectively) would give access to addresses and telephone numbers, whereas the willingness to share content of chats or telephone calls is significantly lower (27%). Our analysis reveals diverging opinions among participants and some effects of sociodemographic variables on the acceptance of invasions into privacy.

6 citations


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TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors used dual process theory from psychology to clarify the causal impact of online media on trust in government in the context of terrorism crisis and empirically tested the effect of the online media with micro-level empirical evidence.
Abstract: Trust in government during crisis plays a key role in effective response and maintained resilience In recent years, online media, including social media platforms such as Weibo and WeChat and news media such as mobile news applications, have been widely adopted by the government in China for communication with the public to promote trust in government during crisis However, studies of the effect of online media on trust in government during crisis have yielded conflicting results This study (1) applies dual process theory from psychology to clarify the causal impact of online media on trust in government in the context of terrorism crisis and (2) empirically tests the effect of online media with microlevel empirical evidence We collected data from 713 local households in the X area of China, which has witnessed terrorist attacks, and applied an ordinal logistic regression model to determine the causal mechanism between online media and trust in government The study finds that exposure to terrorism-related information in online media has limited impact on trust in government during crisis Furthermore, sense of security positively moderates the relationship between exposure to terrorism-related information in online media and trust in government during crisis

24 citations

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01 Jan 2019
TL;DR: Gina Maria Schmidbauer-Wolf Technische Universität Darmstadt – Wissenschaft und Technik für Frieden and Sicherheit (PEASEC) Darmabad, Germany {lastname}@peasec.tu-darmstadt.de
Abstract: Gina Maria Schmidbauer-Wolf Technische Universität Darmstadt – Wissenschaft und Technik für Frieden und Sicherheit (PEASEC) Darmstadt, Germany {lastname}@peasec.tu-darmstadt.de Franziska Herbert Technische Universität Darmstadt – Wissenschaft und Technik für Frieden und Sicherheit (PEASEC) Darmstadt, Germany {lastname}@peasec.tu-darmstadt.de Christian Reuter Technische Universität Darmstadt – Wissenschaft und Technik für Frieden und Sicherheit (PEASEC) Darmstadt, Germany {lastname}@peasec.tu-darmstadt.de

7 citations

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TL;DR: This paper examines factors affecting the willingness to install mobile security applications by taking into account the invasion levels and security features of cyber-security applications, and proposes a visual language that depicts the coverage of different security features as well as privacy intrusiveness levels.
Abstract: Installing security applications is a common way to protect against malicious apps, phishing emails, and other threats in mobile operating systems. While these applications can provide essential se...

6 citations

01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: This paper examines a survey, in which German citizens were asked if they are, regarding the Paris attacks, willing to give up privacy for increased security, and focused on privacy in social networks and the surveillance of terrorists in those domains.
Abstract: Privacy or security? Can those two maxims be harmonized? Or are they part of a zero-sum game, which does not allow any compromises? At least, this notion seems to be present in the civil population: Edward Snowden let the cry for more privacy in the internet become loud and his revelations have come across a great positive echo in several populations. But there was another political development. The Islamist terror has become almost omnipresent, and is still today. The so called “Islamic State” wages war against all those, who do not surrender to it and its believes. Its most devastating attack in Europe is represented by the Paris attacks in November 2015, with over 130 civilian casualties. New safety concepts were developed to prevent such attacks in the future. But one detail became very crucial: the terrorists had communicated and planed the attack via the internet. Both guiding ideas of security and privacy have gained additional benefit since 2013. Furthermore, both are welcomed by the population and are equally demanded by them. But is coexistence between those two seemingly contradictory concepts even possible if both concepts need to be equally executed? In this paper we examine a survey, in which we asked German citizens if they are, regarding the Paris attacks, willing to give up privacy for increased security. For this, we focused on privacy in social networks and the surveillance of terrorists in those domains. In addition, this paper will show clusters of opinions, wishes and tendencies of the German population regarding the zero-sum game “Security and Privacy”.

3 citations