Social media in disaster response: Queensland police service - Public engagement during the 2011 floods

ACIS 2012 : Proceedings of the 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ehnis, Christian ^a   Bunker, Deborah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Disaster management; Facebook; Microblogging; Social media

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; FACEBOOK; INFORMATION DISTRIBUTIONS; MICRO-BLOGGING SERVICES; MICROBLOGGING; SOCIAL MEDIA; STANDARD FRAMEWORKS; TWO WAY COMMUNICATIONS;

DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; FLOODS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

EID: 84878273197     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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