Governmental social media use for emergency communication

ISCRAM 2013 Conference Proceedings - 10th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 828-833

  Beneito Montagut, Roser ^a   Anson, Susan ^a   Shaw, Duncan ^b   Brewster, Christopher ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emergency communication; Institutional resilience; Social media

Indexed keywords

CIVIL DEFENSE; DISASTERS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; GOVERNMENTAL AGENCY; INFORMATION FLOWS; INSTITUTIONAL RESILIENCE; SOCIAL MEDIA; WEB 2.0 TOOLS;

SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EID: 84905650416     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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