Collaborative Research: Organizational development, operations, and new media among civilian flood-rescue groups

合作研究：民间洪水救援团体的组织发展、运作和新媒体

• 批准号: 1851500
• 负责人: Brant Mitchell
• 金额: $ 22.46万
• 依托单位: Louisiana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-01 至 2023-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1851500&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Organizational; development; operations

In this project, the stability or formalization and growth of volunteer groups and the use of social media in these processes will be investigated. Specifically, processes of conducting volunteer flood rescues, factors that affect immediate decision-making during rescues, decisions about volunteer group development, and use of social media for rescuing and group development will be researched through intense interviewing and participation with rescuers. Disasters are unique opportunities to study social processes, and they are also becoming more frequent social problems. Disasters of recent years have introduced volunteer organizations supported by social media and new technologies. Limited scholarly research has studied this volunteer rescue movement, these volunteers, or these rescue operations. Findings will contribute to scholarly understanding of group formation and development and how this may be affected by new technologies. They also will contribute to public welfare by being integrated in courses such as on emergency management and hazard mitigation and recovery, and by being directly shared with organizations that do rescues as well as the broader emergency management and public communities.To address the research goal, ethnographic research will be conducted that includes participation with volunteer organizations that conduct rescues, 20-40 interviews with emergency management officials, 30-60 interviews with volunteer rescuers, and 20-30 interviews with persons rescued by civilian volunteers. Over the life of the project, this will involve training and traveling with volunteer organizations as they respond to disasters, such as the three to which these organizations responded in 2018, Hurricanes Florence and Michael and floods in Southeast Texas. Participation will be in three different roles: boat rescuer, dispatcher, and leadership coordination. In addition, available social media data and media articles will be collected and analyzed inductively. GIS technology will be used to analyze available geospatial data on rescue locations, which will be related to hazard data.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在这个项目中，将研究志愿者群体的稳定或形式化和成长以及在这些过程中使用社交媒体的使用。 具体而言，将通过对救援人员进行激烈的访谈和参与来研究进行志愿洪水救援的过程，影响救援过程中立即决策的因素，有关志愿者小组发展的决策以及使用社交媒体进行救援和团体发展的过程。灾难是研究社会过程的独特机会，并且它们也变得越来越频繁地社会问题。 近年来的灾难引入了社交媒体和新技术支持的志愿组织。有限的学术研究研究了这种志愿者救援运动，这些志愿者或这些救援行动。发现将有助于对群体形成和发展的学术理解以及如何影响新技术的影响。 他们还将通过纳入诸如紧急管理和危害缓解和康复的课程，并与救援的组织以及更广泛的紧急管理和公共社区直接分享诸如紧急管理和危害和康复的课程，从而为公共福利做出贡献。为了解决人口研究目标，将进行人口研究，包括与20-40-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-60-6的志愿组织进行。对民用志愿者救出的人的采访。在该项目的一生中，这将涉及志愿组织对灾难做出反应的培训和旅行，例如这些组织在2018年做出回应的三个，德克萨斯州东南部的飓风佛罗伦萨和迈克尔和洪水。 参与将分为三个不同的角色：船救援人员，调度员和领导协调。此外，将收集和分析可用的社交媒体数据和媒体文章。 GIS技术将用于分析有关救援地点的可用地理空间数据，该数据将与危害数据有关。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得通过评估来提供支持。