Relationship of Information Sharing in Social Media to Reinforcement of Online Social Capital during Humanitarian Crisis Response in Yemen
2019
The internet revolution has brought about several
interesting phenomena, with one of the top being the use of
social media as an avenue for social development and for the
contribution to the cohesion among the community members. In
the present study, the focus was placed on information sharing
in social media as tools used by participants in Yemeni non-profit
organizations to making informed decisions when it comes to
crisis response, via the development of social capital in the
virtual community. The study made use of statistical method of
quantitative to obtain the results. Accordingly, data was
gathered by distributing 423 questionnaires to non-profit
organizations managers who had participated in emergency or
disaster relief tasks in Yemen. The study found that exchange of
information and its management timely through social media
helped to develop the social capital, which facilitated and
maintain ongoing relationships and establish to social
coordination, volunteerism, and social cohesion among
organizations and victims for creating the social capital in crisis
community.
Keywords:
- Correction
- Source
- Cite
- Save
- Machine Reading By IdeaReader
0
References
0
Citations
NaN
KQI