Mining social media for disaster management: Leveraging social media data for community recovery

Social media data, from Twitter and Facebook, for example, can be regarded as critical information sources during disasters through their use in detecting and assessing disaster situations. This study overviews relevant literature from the perspective of social media for disaster management. The findings of this study show that while many previous studies have focused on how to leverage social media data for mitigating and responding to disasters, few have focused on social media use for a disaster-struck community's recovery. This paper also argues that there is a need to study the correlations between social media data and the affected people's recovery activities in the real world. With this gap in mind, the author discusses one potential avenue for future work.