Microblogging after a major disaster in China

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 25-34

  Qu, Yan ^a   Huang, Chen ^a   Zhang, Pengyi ^a   Zhang, Jun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Pitney Bowes Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster response; Microblogging; Yushu Earthquake

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES;

ANALYSIS METHOD; CHINESE INTERNETS; CONTENT ANALYSIS; DISASTER RESPONSE; INFORMATION SPREADING; MAJOR DISASTERS; MICROBLOGGING; SOCIO-CULTURAL;

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

EID: 79955128036     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1958824.1958830     Document Type: Conference Paper

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