Revealing Unfairness in social media contributors’ attention to vulnerable urban areas during disasters

Emerging influential contributors (EICs) on social media platforms—meteorologists, news reporters, journalists, and employees of public sector agencies—play a pivotal role in disaster information warning by consistently disseminating situational public. However, the fairness Influential Contributors' (EICs') attention to different urban areas when posting has not been examined. It is unknown whether vulnerable communities where low-income, minority, older individuals live are omitted from content posts made EICs. The study used tweets Houston, Texas, related Hurricane Harvey test proposed approaches examine existence bias This first formulated problem identifying its correspondence with well-explored assessment then two methods for evaluation fair dissemination media. study's findings show that biases exist amount given which populations EICs Twitter inform about situations. Such negatively affect representativeness disseminated emergency response relief efforts. outcomes address important knowledge gaps informatics online networks during crises.