Knowledge sharing via social media in flood disaster event

Social media is gaining its popularity as one of the most used information technology (IT) medium. Recently, previous works from the other researchers have acknowledged the important of social media as one of the most widely used IT tools to share information during the event of disaster. Flood is a...

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Main Author:	Wan Hussin, Wan Nur Tasnim
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	QA75 Electronic computers Computer science
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78063/1/WanNurTasnimMFC20161.pdf
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spelling	my-utm-ep.780632018-07-23T05:33:25Z Knowledge sharing via social media in flood disaster event 2016-01 Wan Hussin, Wan Nur Tasnim QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science Social media is gaining its popularity as one of the most used information technology (IT) medium. Recently, previous works from the other researchers have acknowledged the important of social media as one of the most widely used IT tools to share information during the event of disaster. Flood is a common natural disaster in the world. Like other disasters, floods can cause fatalities from drowning and damages to properties such as houses, buildings, plantations, livestock and others. Social media itself became as knowledge sharing (KS) during the flood. Although social media is gaining popularity, it is unknown how this application fit the task of knowledge sharing in flood disaster. Hence, this study is carried out to know the information needed in pre event, event and post event of flood from awareness of local people which can be relate to current usage of social media as knowledge sharing tool. Besides reading the previous researchers work, mix research method was also used in this study. Data for this research is collected using questionnaire and interview. The result of this research shows a positive impact from the usage of social media as knowledge sharing tool in flood disaster. The current social media usage with information of pre event, during the event and post event of flood disaster is shown by a diagram of knowledge sharing summarization in flood event and discussion relation with knowledge sharing is also being discussed. 2016-01 Thesis http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78063/ http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/78063/1/WanNurTasnimMFC20161.pdf application/pdf en public http://dms.library.utm.my:8080/vital/access/manager/Repository/vital:89987 masters Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Computing Faculty of Computing
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spellingShingle	QA75 Electronic computers Computer science Wan Hussin, Wan Nur Tasnim Knowledge sharing via social media in flood disaster event
description	Social media is gaining its popularity as one of the most used information technology (IT) medium. Recently, previous works from the other researchers have acknowledged the important of social media as one of the most widely used IT tools to share information during the event of disaster. Flood is a common natural disaster in the world. Like other disasters, floods can cause fatalities from drowning and damages to properties such as houses, buildings, plantations, livestock and others. Social media itself became as knowledge sharing (KS) during the flood. Although social media is gaining popularity, it is unknown how this application fit the task of knowledge sharing in flood disaster. Hence, this study is carried out to know the information needed in pre event, event and post event of flood from awareness of local people which can be relate to current usage of social media as knowledge sharing tool. Besides reading the previous researchers work, mix research method was also used in this study. Data for this research is collected using questionnaire and interview. The result of this research shows a positive impact from the usage of social media as knowledge sharing tool in flood disaster. The current social media usage with information of pre event, during the event and post event of flood disaster is shown by a diagram of knowledge sharing summarization in flood event and discussion relation with knowledge sharing is also being discussed.
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author	Wan Hussin, Wan Nur Tasnim
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author_sort	Wan Hussin, Wan Nur Tasnim
title	Knowledge sharing via social media in flood disaster event
title_short	Knowledge sharing via social media in flood disaster event
title_full	Knowledge sharing via social media in flood disaster event
title_fullStr	Knowledge sharing via social media in flood disaster event
title_full_unstemmed	Knowledge sharing via social media in flood disaster event
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publishDate	2016
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Knowledge sharing via social media in flood disaster event

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