Connected communications: Network structures of official communications in a technological disaster

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Sutton, Jeannette N ^a   Spiro, Emma S ^a   Johnson, Britta ^a   Fitzhugh, Sean M ^b   Greczek, Mathew ^b   Butts, Carter T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disaster research; Online informal communication; Social media; Social networks

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OIL SPILLS;

DIRECT COMMUNICATIONS; INFORMAL COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION EXCHANGES; MICRO-BLOGGING SERVICES; NETWORK STRUCTURES; ON-LINE INFORMATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; TECHNOLOGICAL DISASTERS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84905574442     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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