Tweet me home: Exploring information use on Twitter in crisis situations

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6778 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 120-129

  Sreenivasan, Nirupama Dharmavaram ^a   Lee, Chei Sian ^a   Goh, Dion Hoe Lian ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

crisis communication; information use; Microblogs; real time communication; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CONTENT ANALYSIS; CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS; ICELANDICS; MICROBLOGS; REAL-TIME COMMUNICATION; TWITTER; VOLCANO ERUPTIONS; CRISIS SITUATIONS; PROBLEM UNDERSTANDING; REAL TIME CONTENT;

ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); VOLCANOES; INFORMATION USE;

INFORMATION USE; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 79960335365     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-21796-8_13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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