Twittering Tennessee: Distributed networks and collaboration following a technological disaster

ISCRAM 2010 - 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Defining Crisis Management 3.0, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Sutton, Jeannette N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Networks; Resilience; Technological disaster; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS);

COLLABORATION; COMMUNICATION MECHANISMS; INDUSTRY REPRESENTATIVES; INFORMAL COMMUNICATION; MICRO-BLOGGING SERVICES; RESILIENCE; TECHNOLOGICAL DISASTERS; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84905649942     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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