Identifying Seekers and Suppliers in Social Media Communities to Support Crisis Coordination

Computer Supported Cooperative Work: CSCW: An International Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 4-6, 2014, Pages 513-545

  Purohit, Hemant ^a   Hampton, Andrew ^b   Bhatt, Shreyansh ^a   Shalin, Valerie L ^b   Sheth, Amit P ^a   Flach, John M ^b  

^a Wright State University   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative crisis response; Coordination; Crisis informatics; Crisis response coordination; Organizational sensemaking; Psycholinguistics; Seeker supplier behavior; Semantic web; Spatio temporal analysis; Twitris

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SEMANTIC WEB; TERMINOLOGY;

COORDINATION; CRISIS INFORMATICS; CRISIS RESPONSE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEEKER-SUPPLIER BEHAVIOR; SENSEMAKING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TWITRIS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84920259451     PISSN: 09259724     EISSN: 15737551     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10606-014-9209-y     Document Type: Article

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