Check out the work by Leysia Palen at University of Colorado, Boulder in the US. She focus her research on crisis informatics (the term originally coined by Christine Hagar) and defines it as the:
area of crisis informatics that should take an integrated perspective
on the technical, social and informational aspects of crisis.
Check out her very exciting work at http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~palen/
and http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~palen/connectivIT/
on the technical, social and informational aspects of crisis.
Check out her very exciting work at http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~palen/
and http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~palen/connectivIT/