The psychology behind people's decision to forward disaster-related tweets

Proceedings - Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, PACIS 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages

  Li, Huaye ^a   Sakamoto, Yasuaki ^a   Tanaka, Yuko ^b   Chen, Rongjuan ^a  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Disaster response; Forwarding behavior; Information spread; Social media

Indexed keywords

DISASTER PREVENTION; EMERGENCY SERVICES; INFORMATION USE; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SURVEYS;

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; DISASTER RESPONSE; FORWARDING BEHAVIOR; GREAT EAST JAPAN EARTHQUAKES; INFORMATION SPREAD; MESSAGE FORWARDING; QUALITY OF INFORMATION; SOCIAL MEDIA;

DISASTERS;

EID: 84928606315     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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