The use of social media within the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS)

WWW'12 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on World Wide Web Companion

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 703-706

  Stollberg, Beate ^a   De Groeve, Tom ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Disaster management; Emergency response; Impact analysis; Social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; IMPACT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER;

DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; EARTHQUAKES; HAZARDS; REACTION INTERMEDIATES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84861029056     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2187980.2188185     Document Type: Conference Paper

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