What is RISE_SMA?
RISE_SMA forms an interdisciplinary, international network combining excellent scholars and practitioners to enable vigorous knowledge sharing and to develop solutions for contemporary challenges for Social Media Analytics (SMA).
Advanced theoretical approaches and methods of analysing social media data are especially relevant for two domains addressed in RISE_SMA: society and crisis communication. Recently, social media communication gained immense impact on society and decision-making at all levels. It offers potential for new forms of public discourses, but also challenges societal cohesion phenomena like fake news and vicious social bots.
During uncertain events such as natural disasters or human-made crises, social media communication plays an increasingly important role for citizens and emergency service agencies. RISE_SMA attempts to uncover communication patterns and suggest best practices to seek and share information in precarious situations.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 823866
Duration: 01-01-2019 – 12-31-2022
Recent Blog Posts
Secondment Report #10: Uni DuE goes Down Under
From October 1, to January 1, I got the opportunity to travel to Brisbane, Australia, to work with our RISE_SMA partners Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns at Queensland University of Technology (QUT). My three-month secondment period at QUT in Brisbane served multiple aims. The key focus of my stay was to investigate misinformation distribution on Twitter and […]
Secondment Report #09: RISE_SMA from a practitioner’s perspective
In November/December of 2019 I was privileged to get insights to the RISE_SMA project from a practitioner’s perspective. Therefore, I attended various meetings in Sydney (University of Sydney Business School) as well as in Perth (as part of ACIS, the Australasian Conference of Information Systems). On the 26th of November I was allowed to kick […]
Secondment Report #08: From Kristiansand to Australia
On November 15, 2019, Kim Henrik Gronert, Dag Morten Frantzen from Kristiansand kommune and Kari Anne Røysland from UiA, travelled to Brisbane Australia. Their secondment to Australia consisted of visits to both QUT in Brisbane and University of Sydney, where they met with the subgroups Fake News and Narratives and Crisis Communication. They are working […]