Information control and terrorism: Tracking the Mumbai terrorist attack through twitter

Information Systems Frontiers

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-43

  Oh, Onook ^a   Agrawal, Manish ^b   Rao, H Raghav ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Information control; Mumbai terrorist attack; Situation awareness; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; EXTREME ENVIRONMENT; INFORMATION CONTROL; LIVE MEDIA; MUMBAI TERRORIST ATTACK; REPORTING SYSTEMS; SITUATION AWARENESS; TERRORIST ATTACKS; TWITTER;

CIVIL AVIATION; DECISION MAKING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

TERRORISM;

EID: 79952899403     PISSN: 13873326     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10796-010-9275-8     Document Type: Article

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