Closing the Citizen-Government Communication Gap: Content, Audience, and Network Analysis of Government Tweets

Journal of Homeland Security and Emergency Management

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 707-735

  Wukich, Clayton ^a   Mergel, Ines ^b  

^a SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency management communication; social convergence; social network analysis; twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84940999197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15477355     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/jhsem-2014-0074     Document Type: Article

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