Rumors on social media in disasters: Extending transmission to retransmission

Proceedings - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Liu, Fang ^a   Burton Jones, Andrew ^a   Xu, Dongming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Crisis management; Disaster; Message retransmission; Rumor; Social media

Indexed keywords

DISASTER PREVENTION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CRISIS MANAGEMENT; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; DISASTER SITUATIONS; ELABORATION LIKELIHOOD MODELS; MESSAGE RETRANSMISSION; RUMOR; RUMOR TRANSMISSION; SOCIAL MEDIA;

DISASTERS;

EID: 84928602377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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