Twitter adoption and use in mass convergence and emergency events

ISCRAM 2009 - 6th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Boundary Spanning Initiatives and New Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Hughes, Amanda Lee ^a   Palen, Leysia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis informatics; Emergency; Micro blogging; Social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CRISIS INFORMATICS; EMERGENCY; MICRO-BLOGGING; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84905567213     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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