Online community response to major disaster: A study of Tianya forum in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake

Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Qu, Yan ^a   Wu, Philip Fei ^a   Wang, Xiaoqing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES; DESIGN IMPLICATIONS; DISASTER RESPONSE; DISCUSSION FORUMS; NETIZENS; ONLINE COMMUNITIES; QUALITATIVE APPROACHES; SICHUAN;

ACCIDENTS;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 78650422803     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2009.330     Document Type: Conference Paper

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