This chapter surveys the rapid rise of social media in a range of disaster experiences,
reviewing topics of citizen reporting, community-oriented computing, distributed problem …

In this paper, we foreground some of the key research challenges that arise in the design of
trustworthy human-AI partnerships. In particular, we focus on the challenges in designing …

Social media generated from many individuals is playing a greater role in our daily lives and
provides a unique opportunity to gain valuable insight on information flow and social …

During a public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, a credible and easy-to-access
information portal is highly desirable. It helps with disease prevention, public health …

In response to COVID-19, a vast number of visualizations have been created to
communicate information to the public. Information exposure in a public health crisis can …

What is the state of the research on crowdsourcing for policymaking? This article begins to
answer this question by collecting, categorizing, and situating an extensive body of the …

How to use data as a tool for empowerment rather than oppression. Big data can be used for
good, from tracking disease to exposing human rights violations, and for bad, implementing …

Floods affect more people globally than any other type of natural hazard. Great potential
exists for new technologies to support flood disaster risk reduction. In addition to existing …

In this paper, we examine the socio-technical impact that social media has had on
coordination between professional emergency responders and digital volunteers. Drawing …

In this short introductory piece, we define open collaboration and contextualize the diverse
articles in this special issue in a common vocabulary and history. We provide a definition of …