The muddy practice of social media crowdsourcing in Bandung City

Muhammad Akram Mansyur*, V. M.F. Homburg, J. F.M. Koppenjan

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Abstract

This interpretative case study investigates social media use during three urban floods in Bandung City, Indonesia. The results suggest that social media is widely used by citizens as an alternative means of emergency communication. As for the government, although the implementation of social media in Bandung City Government can be said to be a pioneer in comparison to other city governments, and Bandung governments units were required to implement social media, social media played a very limited role in crisis communication between citizens and government. Reasons for this include fragility in adoption of technology, lack of institutionalization of technology, and a mutual distrust between government and citizens, where citizens prefer to use traditional media to issue complaints and report status updates rather than government agencies. This empirical finding was found based on a multimethod study, using interview data, social media scraping, document analysis and field study as sources of data.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInformation Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction - 5th IFIP WG 5.15 International Conference, ITDRR 2020, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsYuko Murayama, Dimiter Velev, Plamena Zlateva
PublisherSpringer Science+Business Media
Pages90-101
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783030814687
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021
Event5th IFIP WG 5.15 International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, ITDRR 2020 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 3 Dec 20204 Dec 2020

Publication series

SeriesIFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Volume622
ISSN1868-4238

Conference

Conference5th IFIP WG 5.15 International Conference on Information Technology in Disaster Risk Reduction, ITDRR 2020
CityVirtual, Online
Period3/12/204/12/20

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