Information cascades in social media in response to a crisis: A preliminary model and a case study

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 653-656

  Hui, Cindy ^a   Tyshchuk, Yulia ^b   Wallace, William A ^b   Magdon Ismail, Malik ^b   Goldberg, Mark ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascades; Crisis communication; Information diffusion; Social networks; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS; CRISIS EVENTS; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; INFORMATION FLOWS; PRELIMINARY MODEL; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TWITTER; WARNING MESSAGES;

CASCADES (FLUID MECHANICS); MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 84861058728     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2187980.2188173     Document Type: Conference Paper

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