RAPID: Emergence of ethnic social network and disaster resilience

RAPID：种族社交网络的出现和抗灾能力

• 批准号: 1761843
• 负责人: Janet Yang
• 金额: $ 9.04万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Buffalo
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-11-15 至 2019-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1761843&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Emergence; ethnic; social; network

Hurricane Harvey was catastrophic and extremely destructive and it presented unprecedented challenges for disaster relief, recovery, and rebuild. Numerous studies have examined the crisis management and disaster recovery support paradigm. Most of these research efforts, however, have focused on time critical information sharing among emergency service providers. In contrast, social support groups that are formed organically through grassroots efforts take advantage of the interactive nature of social media and allow their users to actively engage in two-way or multi-way conversations, post comments and reactions, which may serve to offer opportunities for correction of low-quality information. This project advances understanding of risk communication by incorporating social capital theories in the context of an ongoing risk event, which allows the assessment of risk perceptions as they are being formed and risk communication behaviors in motion.This research focuses on the Chinese American community in Houston, who were united through the popular social media platform WeChat. The project, inspired by stories from victims with first-hand experience with Harvey, examines this burgeoning ethnic network and how it contributes to disaster resilience, which is defined as the sustained ability of a community to withstand and recover from adversity. Buttressed by existing online and offline social networks, the entire community's disaster resilience improved because ordinary citizens were able to receive useful information and other social support directly and efficiently, when access to emergency service providers and government agencies was disrupted. Although focusing on one particular ethnic group may appear microscopic, this case study will offer broader implications for other communities bounded by a shared geographic location. RAPID Specifically, the goal of the proposed research is to conduct a survey among Chinese American WeChat users to 1) assess attributes of individuals, including their psychological attributes such as hazard experience and risk perception, as well as demographic attributes such as incomes, occupation, and education; 2) gather relational data, such as contacts, ties and connections, and group attachments and embeddedness into the local community; 3) identify key opinion leaders and map out effective pathways for the dissemination of relief/recovery information. The research objectives are to determine (1) the network structures of existing support groups, both online and offline, and track their development and evolvement during the immediate recovery periods post-Harvey; (2) the demographic and psychographic attributes that denote key opinion leaders in these networks; and, (3) the most valuable information sources and pathways of information sharing that improve disaster resilience in the local community. The data collection entails a survey among Chinese American residents of the metropolitan Houston area who use the social media application WeChat. With an estimated margin of error at ±4%, 95% confidence level, the sample size needed is 590 to provide good representation of the Chinese American population in Houston, approximately 33,000.

哈维飓风是灾难性的，极其破坏性，它针对救灾，康复和重建提出了前所未有的挑战。许多研究检查了危机管理和灾难恢复支持范式。但是，这些研究工作中的大多数都集中在紧急服务提供商之间的时间关键信息共享。相比之下，通过基层努力有机地形成的社会支持小组利用社交媒体的互动性质，使他们的用户可以积极进行双向或多路对话，发表评论和反应，这可能有助于纠正低质量信息。该项目通过在持续的风险事件中纳入社会资本理论来提高对风险交流的理解，这允许在形成风险感知的情况下评估风险感知，并在运动中进行风险交流行为。这项研究重点介绍了休斯敦的中国美国社区，他们通过流行的社交媒体平台Wechat团结在一起。该项目的灵感来自于与哈维（Harvey）第一手经验的受害者的故事，研究了这个新兴的民族网络及其如何促进灾难弥补，这被定义为社区承受和从广告中恢复的持续能力。在现有的在线和离线社交网络的支撑下，整个社区的灾难弹性得到了改善，因为当访问紧急服务提供者和政府机构被破坏时，普通公民能够直接有效地获得有用的信息和其他社会支持。尽管专注于一个特定种族的群体可能会显得微观，但该案例研究将为其他社区带来更广泛的含义。拟议的研究的目的是快速，拟议中的目的是在美国美国微信使用者中进行调查1）评估个人的属性，包括其心理属性，例如危害经验和风险感知，以及人口统计学属性，例如收入，发生和教育； 2）收集关系数据，例如联系，联系和联系，以及团体的附件以及嵌入到当地社区中； 3）确定关键意见领导者，并绘制出传播救济/恢复信息的有效途径。研究目标是确定（1）在线和离线上的现有支持小组的网络结构，并在哈维后立即恢复期间跟踪其发展和演变； （2）表示这些网络中关键意见领导者的人口和心理属性； （3）最有价值的信息来源和信息共享途径，可以改善当地社区的灾难弹性。数据收集需要在使用社交媒体应用微信中的大都会休斯顿地区的华裔美国居民中进行调查。估计的误差率为±4％，置信度为95％，所需的样本量为590，以提供休斯敦的华裔美国人人口的良好代表，约为33,000。