Social Network Types: An Emergency Social Network Approach - A Concept of Possible Inclusion of Emergency Posts in Social Networks through an API
Monika Dávideková, Michal Greguš · 2017
In current digital era, people are staring at their smart phones all the time: checking newest posts and messages of their connections in social network sites. At the same time, global attacks and armed accidents representing menace to public safety occur with continuously increasing frequency. In such times, it is important to use all possible communication channels for effective broadcasting of emergency information. During assaults, involving and threatening broad public, it is important to deliver emergency instructions about how to behave, what to do and which places to avoid, to affected civilians through exploitation of communication channels used by targeted receivers. Such information can save human lives through avoidance of entering dangerous areas and creating the necessary room for security forces to act by leaving the place of the accident free of civilians. This paper aims to propose a concept model of emergency broadcasting by utilizing social network sites for information dissemination. Instead of introducing a new social network type like an emergency network, it proposes a connecting point between the public governmental security forces and the social network sites in form of a first draft of a possible API in high level. The discussion part of this paper intends to highlight viable advantages and stress potential disadvantages of proposed concept.