Social media and warning response impacts in extreme events: Results from a naturally occurring experiment

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 818-827

  Tyshchuk, Yulia ^a   Hui, Cindy ^b   Grabowski, Martha ^a   Wallace, William A ^a  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RISK MANAGEMENT;

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; EXTREME EVENTS; NATURALLY OCCURRING; RESPONSE PROCESS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84857942571     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2012.536     Document Type: Conference Paper

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