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If anyone's looking for a research project, the interface between
emergency incident response and social networks could be fruitful:

 

"Boston police haven't said whether the blogs or bloggers played any
role in their own investigation, but some security analysts say such
online social networks ought to be a prime law-enforcement tool during
emergencies - or perceived emergencies. "Increasingly networked
personal communications, combined with the new understandings we have
now of the power of social networks, should actually be harnessed for
good in terms of dealing with terrorism [or] a situation like Katrina,"
says W. David Stephenson, a homeland security consultant based in
Medfield, Mass."

 

from "How bloggers worked the Boston 'bomb hoax'" by Ben Arnoldy in
today's edition of The Christian Science Monitor
(http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0202/p02s01-ussc.html)

 

Annelies Z. Kamran
Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies
The Graduate Center
The City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue, Rm. 5203
New York, NY 10016
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