Promoting structured data in citizen communications during disaster response: An account of strategies for diffusion of the 'Tweak the Tweet' syntax

Crisis Information Management: Communication and Technologies

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 43-63

  Starbird, Kate ^a   Palen, Leysia ^b,c,d   Liu, Sophia B ^a   Vieweg, Sarah ^b   Hughes, Amanda ^b   Schram, Aaron ^e   Anderson, Kenneth Mark ^e   Bagdouri, Mossaab ^f   White, Joanne ^b   McTaggart, Casey ^f   Schenk, Chris ^e  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c Institute for the Alliance of Technology Learning and Society (ATLAS)   (United States)

^d Institute of Cognitive Science   (Iran)

^e UCB 450   (United States)

^f Project EPIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Citizen reporting; Computer mediated communication; Crisis informatics; Haiti earthquake; Microblogs; Social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CITIZEN REPORTING; COMPUTER MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; CRISIS INFORMATICS; HAITI EARTHQUAKES; MICROBLOGS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER;

SYNTACTICS;

EID: 84904376766     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-1-84334-647-0.50003-5     Document Type: Chapter

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