The 2010 hurricane season, which began this month, is forecast to be a busy one. As relief workers respond to the storms, researchers at Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Lab will track the situation – not through weather maps and TV reports, but through photos and messages on social-media websites. The lab is studying posts on tools such as Twitter and YouTube during disasters and political conflicts to answer some basic questions: Who is using them? And how? The Office of Naval Research, an agency in the Department of Defense, has given the lab – in partnership with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County – a two-year grant of $1.1 million.
The article, “This hurricane season researchers track tweets and other social media,” ran Monday, June 14, in the Philadelphia Enquirer.
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