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TopRole Of Ict During Crisis
Information and communication technology has opened doors and made anything available for anybody from anywhere all the time. Crisis events world-wide have recorded the notable role played by information and communication technology (ICT) in warning and response activities (Liu, 2007). In many ways, improvements of communication technologies and systems have created new communication platforms that cause economic, political, social and cultural transformations. With Web 2.0 technologies getting common on the internet, social networks have gained extreme importance, especially in the recent years (Kulakli & Mahony, 2014). Public participation is emerging as a wide-ranging space for computer-moderated interaction with inferences for both informal and formal response (Palen, 2007).
Mass broadcasting initiatives based on traditional media, like newspaper, radio and television have been taken over by individuals, public and/or private enterprises on social media platforms and these network-driven new media tools that allow direct broadcasting has proceeded in individual, cultural, social, legal, economic and political consequences (Scaglione, Giovannetti, & Hamoudia, 2015). People are influenced by these social media developments in many ways. People on social media share threats as well as opportunities (Li, Zubielqui & O'Connor, 2015).