[ecrea] Interactions - new issue: Social media and citizen engagement in crises

It is my great pleasure to inform you about the online publication of a 
new issue of 'Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture' 
(Volume 6, Issue 2, July 2015) by Intellect, which is now available at 
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-issue,id=2897/

The thematic issue on 'Social media and citizen engagement in crises', 
guest-edited by Lemi Baruh (Koc University), is an outcome of the 
international workshop held in Istanbul in September 2014 in the context 
of the FP7-funded project COSMIC (COntribution of Social Media In Crisis 
Management). Full information about the project is available at 
http://www.cosmic-project.eu/ with the full list of outputs available in 
the 'Working Documents' section of the website. The COSMIC project was 
an EU-funded project from the European Commission's Seventh Framework 
Programme FP7-SEC-2012 under grant agreement no. 312737.



Table of Contents

Editorial: Social media and citizen engagement in crises
Lemi Baruh (Koc University)

An engaged public: Considerations for the use of social media in 
managing crises
Hayley Watson and Kim Hagen (Trilateral Research & Consulting)

Crowdsourcing and the folksonomy of emergency response: The construction 
of a mediated subject
Gregory Asmolov (London School of Economics and Political Science)

Citizens’ involvement in emergency preparedness and response: A 
comparative analysis of media strategies and online presence in Turkey, 
Italy and Germany
Salvatore Scifo (Maltepe University) and Yusuf Salman (Koc University)

Riding the (seismic) wave: The building of a media discourse following a 
disaster
Caglar Akgungor (AKUT / Search and Rescue Association)

Citizen involvement in emergency reporting: A study on witnessing and 
citizen journalism
Haluk Mert Bal and Lemi Baruh (Koc University)

Hurricanes and hashtags: How the media and NGOs treat citizens’ voices 
online in humanitarian emergencies
Glenda Cooper (City University London)

Transformation of collective action space: A study on the relationship 
between organizational attributes and ICT use
Zeynep Gunel and Gokce Karaoglu (Koc University)



About the journal

'Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture' recognizes the 
interdisciplinary nature of the fields of media, communication and 
cultural studies and we therefore encourage diverse themes, subjects, 
contexts and approaches; empirical, theoretical and historical. Our 
objective is to engage readers and contributors from different parts of 
the world in a critical debate on the myriad interconnections and 
interactions between communication, culture and society at the outset of 
the twenty first century.

It is our intention to encourage the development of the widest possible 
scholarly community, both in terms of geographical location and 
intellectual scope and we will publish leading articles from both 
established scholars and those at the beginning of their careers.

'Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture' is a journal 
published by Intellect. For further information, please visit the 
journal's webpage at 
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=165/

Editor: Salvatore Scifo (Maltepe University, Istanbul)
Associate Editor: Alessandro D'Arma (University of Westminster)


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Assist.Prof.Dr.Salvatore Scifo
Maltepe University
Faculty of Communication, Room A502
Department of Public Relations and Publicity (English)
Marmara Eğitim Köyü
TR-34857 Maltepe, Istanbul
Turkey

E: (salvatorescifo /at/ maltepe.edu.tr)

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