Social media and emergency management: Exploring state and local tweets

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 1968-1977

  Carter, Lemuria ^a   Thatcher, Jason Bennett ^b   Wright, Ryan ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIVIL DEFENSE; DISASTERS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

CITIZEN PARTICIPATION; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; FACEBOOK; GOVERNMENT AGENCIES; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84902245466     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2014.249     Document Type: Conference Paper

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