 Distributed morality, privacy, and social media in natural disaster responsePaul Hayes and Stephen Kelly Technology in Society, 2018, vol. 54, issue C, 155-167 Abstract: In this article we note that natural disasters are a destructive force of natural evil that will likely have even greater deleterious effects moving into the future. Whilst natural disasters have catastrophic potential, the advent of social media means that statutory emergency managers have a source of real time information updates to assist decision making in natural disaster response. However, social media feeds do not contain purely relevant information, therefore the task of navigating them in crisis scenarios can be an unwieldy one. As researchers involved in the development of a system that monitors social media for information pertaining to natural disasters (the EU FP 7 funded Slándáil project), we propose that the delegation of this morally loaded task to an autonomous computational artefact can potentially help harness the power of distributed morality and can empower heterogeneous organisations to overcome the phenomenon Luciano Floridi refers to as the tragedy of the Good Will. Keywords: Machine learning; Text processing; Ethics; Privacy; Emergency management; Natural disaster (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:teinso:v:54:y:2018:i:c:p:155-167 DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2018.05.003 Access Statistics for this article Technology in Society is currently edited by Charla Griffy-Brown More articles in Technology in Society from Elsevier |
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