Information sharing on twitter during the 2011 catastrophic earthquake

WWW 2013 Companion - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1025-1028

  Toriumi, Fujio ^a   Sakaki, Takeshi ^a   Shinoda, Kosuke ^b   Kazama, Kazuhiro ^c   Kurihara, Satoshi ^d   Noda, Itsuki ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c WAKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disaster situation; Earthquake; Information diffusion; Information sharings; Social networks; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CATASTROPHIC EARTHQUAKE; DISASTER SITUATIONS; GENERAL PUBLICS; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; INFORMATION SHARING; MASS MEDIA; SHARING INFORMATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; TWITTER;

EARTHQUAKES;

EID: 84893088429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2487788.2488110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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