TWITTER AND DISASTERS: The uses of Twitter during the 2010 Pakistan floods

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 837-855

  Murthy, Dhiraj ^a   Longwell, Scott A ^a  

^a BOWDOIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

authority; network ties; new media; social factors; social network analysis; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880012989     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2012.696123     Document Type: Article

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