Tweak the tweet: Leveraging microblogging proliferation with a prescriptive syntax to support citizen reporting

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Starbird, Kate ^a   Stamberger, Jeannie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective intelligence; Crisis informatics; Disasters; Emergency; Hazards; Information convergence; Information diffusion; Microblogging; Technology diffusion

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS; HAZARDS; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SYNTACTICS;

COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCES; CRISIS INFORMATICS; EMERGENCY; INFORMATION CONVERGENCE; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; MICROBLOGGING; TECHNOLOGY DIFFUSION;

ELECTRIC GROUNDING;

EID: 84905652906     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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