The impact of posting URLs in disaster-related tweets on rumor spreading behavior

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 520-529

  Tanaka, Yuko ^a   Sakamoto, Yasuaki ^b   Honda, Hidehito ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENETICS   (Japan)

^b STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL FOOD RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; SYSTEMS SCIENCE; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

HYPERLINKS; PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS; RUMOR SPREADING; RUMOR TRANSMISSION; SOCIAL MEDIA;

DISASTERS;

EID: 84902293970     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2014.72     Document Type: Conference Paper

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