Trusting tweets: The Fukushima disaster and information source credibility on Twitter

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Thomson, Robert ^a   Ito, Naoya ^b   Suda, Hinako ^a   Lin, Fangyu ^a   Liu, Yafei ^a   Hayasaka, Ryo ^a   Isochi, Ryuzo ^a   Wang, Zian ^a  

^a Graduate School of International Media Communication and Tourism Studies   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Credibility; Crisis communication; Culture; Deindividuation; Fukushima; Social media; Trust; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CELL CULTURE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ANONYMITY; CREDIBILITY; CRISIS COMMUNICATIONS; DEINDIVIDUATION; FUKUSHIMA; SOCIAL MEDIA; TRUST; TWITTER;

DISASTERS;

EID: 84905581259     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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