What it takes to get passed on: Message content, style, and structure as predictors of retransmission in the Boston Marathon Bombing response

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Sutton, Jeannette ^a   Gibson, C Ben ^b   Spiro, Emma S ^c   League, Cedar ^d   Fitzhugh, Sean M ^b   Butts, Carter T ^b,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^e 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

^f University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HAZARD; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; POPULATION RISK; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL MEDIA; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TERRORISM; TEXT MESSAGING; VULNERABLE POPULATION; BOMB; HISTORY; LINGUISTICS; MASSACHUSETTS; PROCEDURES; RUNNING; SOCIAL NETWORK;

BOMBS; BOSTON; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; RUNNING; SOCIAL NETWORKING; TERRORISM;

EID: 84942940406     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134452     Document Type: Article

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