Social Media, Public Participation, and the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 605-630

  Starbird, Kate ^a   Dailey, Dharma ^a   Walker, Ann Hayward ^b   Leschine, Thomas M ^a   Pavia, Robert ^a   Bostrom, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SEA Consulting Group   (United States)

Author keywords

citizen science; crowdsourcing; digital volunteerism; emergency response; emergent organization; oil spill response; social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84910113256     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807039.2014.947866     Document Type: Article

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