CENTER FOR FOREIGN POLICY AND PEACE RESEARCH
\nPEACETALK: YOUNG SCHOLAR SERIES<\/p>\n
\u201cTerrorism on Twitter: A Crisis Communication Perspective\u201d<\/p>\n
Yusuf Salman, Master\u2019s Programme in Design, Technology, Society -Ko\u00e7 University<\/p>\n
31 March, Thursday at 12:30
\nBilkent University Main Campus, G Building, Room: 160<\/p>\n
New media technologies present new opportunities and responsibilities for different stakeholders in times of crises. Social technologies are not only technologies; they are also social. Therefore, they create additional concerns on practicality, ethics, disinformation, and access. This study reviews and compares the social media coverage of a selection of terror attacks in 2016 with a crisis communication perspective and an emphasis on Twitter. It investigates the usage of Twitter as a tool to receive, process and distribute information outside of traditional news sources, as well as a platform in which citizens engage different stakeholders on matters of public concern. Different approaches on crisis communication as a part of crisis management, basic elements of graph theory, and social network analysis tools are utilised to compare how citizens receive news and general information about terror events via Twitter-based on their preferred language.<\/p>\n