Information School News

Dr Ioanna Tantanasi has joined the Information School as a Research Associate. She will work with Work Package leader Dr Paul Reilly on the EU Horizon 2020 project 'IMPROVER.' Ioanna will help develop educational resources for the project and will also be responsible for co-authoring peer-reviewed outputs. We would like to welcome her to the Information School and look forward to working with her over the next nine months.

A paper co-authored by Senior Lecturer Dr Paul Reilly, Research Associate Dr Elisa Serafinelli and their colleagues from EMSC was nominated for a prize at the 2017 ISCRAM (Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management) conference. This work, entitled 'Public expectations of social media use by critical infrastructure operators in crisis communication' and based on results from the EC H2020 IMPROVER project , explores public expectations of social media use by critical infrastructure operators during crisis situations. Previous research into the role of social media in crisis communication has tended to focus on how sites such as Twitter are used by emergency managers rather than other key stakeholders, such as critical infrastructure (CI) operators. This paper adds to this emergent field by empirically investigating public expectations of information provided by CI operators during crisis situations. It does so by drawing on key themes that emerged from a review ...

Dr Elisa Serafinelli has joined the Information School as a Research Associate . She specialises in mobile visualities and the social communication of photography, and will work with Work Package leader Dr Paul Reilly and part-time Research Assistant Rebecca Stevenson on the EU Horizon 2020 project 'IMPROVER.' Elisa will have primary responsibility for the Sheffield team's study of how social media can be used to build resilience in disaster-affected communities. We would like to welcome her to the Information School and look forward to working with her on this project