Assessment of Goals and Motives of Social Media and Crisis Management Students: The Role of Smart Phones in Social Activism

This paper examines the role of smart phones in activism and crisis management through social media. Because these types of media in recent years have provided the ground for activism more than other mass media, and as Castells put it, they have created a new platform called "spontaneous mass media", the users of these networks, too, particularly with utilization of smart phones, have gained the chance to manage social crises through their lived experience.
In order to provide conceptual analysis of the nature of activism in social, political, economic and cultural relations, this paper describes the impacts of converged social media on smart phones in dealing with crisis management. In the meantime, examples of the different aspects of crisis management (accumulation, outbreak, subsiding and recovery) will be explained and analyzed with due attention to the new cognitive domains that are specifically related to the capacities of varied novel social media alongside activism of network users and emerging capabilities in real space is associated with network users in real space.