Twitter in the cross fire - The use of social media in the Westgate mall terror attack in Kenya

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Simon, Tomer ^a,b   Goldberg, Avishay ^a   Aharonson Daniel, Limor ^a   Leykin, Dmitry ^a,c   Adini, Bruria ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b PREPARED Center for Emergency Response Research Ben Gurion University of the Negev ^*  (Israel)

^c TEL HAI COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CENSORSHIP; EMERGENCY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SEEKING; INFORMATION SYSTEM; KENYA; ORGANIZATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL SECURITY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TERRORISM; DATA MINING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RESCUE PERSONNEL; UTILIZATION;

DATA MINING; EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; KENYA; SECURITY MEASURES; SOCIAL MEDIA; TERRORISM;

EID: 84929510222     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104136     Document Type: Article

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