Social media - Truly viable for crisis response?

ISCRAM 2012 Conference Proceedings - 9th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Jennex, Murray E ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Availability; Crisis response; Social media

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; HARDWARE;

CELL PHONE; CRISIS EVENTS; CRISIS RESPONSE; SAN DIEGO; SOCIAL MEDIA;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84905566766     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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