Exhaustive Insights Towards Social-Media Driven Disaster Management Approaches

Abstract

The manuscript presents discussion about the disaster management approaches using social media. It is noted that rising popularity of social media has been witnessed to significantly contribute towards information propagation and community participation to deal with the event of disaster. Different from conventional disaster management policies, the scope of inclusion of social media-based approaches are quite novel and yet promising. However, the problem is towards unclear information about the effectivity of such schemes. Hence, this manuscript contributes towards bridging this information gap by carrying out an exhaustive and systematic review of existing methodology frequently adopted towards disaster management using social media viz. early warning methods, information dissemination methods, crisis mapping method, and predictive approach, where Artificial Intelligence was noted to be quite dominant scheme. The contributory findings of this review study contribute towards clear visualization of updated research trends, critical learning outcomes associated with identified research gap with illustrated discussion of the reviewed articles. A clear and informative study findings contributes towards future researchers. The result of review has also answered the formed research question to give potential insight towards existing system. The result of the review finds that existing approaches has both beneficial aspect and limitation associated with complex learning approaches, higher infrastructural cost, model complexities, security threats, higher resource dependencies.