Collective intelligence in disaster: Examination of the phenomenon in the aftermath of the 2007 Virginia Tech Shooting

Proceedings of ISCRAM 2008 - 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 44-54

  Vieweg, Sarah ^a   Palen, Leysia ^a   Liu, Sophia B ^a   Hughes, Amanda L ^a   Sutton, Jeannette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective intelligence; Crisis informatics; Disaster studies; Distributed cognition; Distributed problem solving; Facebook; Virginia Tech

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCES; CRISIS INFORMATICS; DISTRIBUTED COGNITION; FACEBOOK; VIRGINIA TECH;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84905579038     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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