A cross-hazard analysis of terse message retransmission on Twitter

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 48, 2015, Pages 14793-14798

  Sutton, Jeannette ^a   Ben Gibson, C ^b   Phillips, Nolan Edward ^b   Spiro, Emma S ^c   League, Cedar ^d   Johnson, Britta ^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

Communication; Disaster; Retransmission; Social media; Warning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FLOODING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; HURRICANE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; MASS COMMUNICATION; NATURAL DISASTER; ONLINE SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; TERRORISM; TERSE MESSAGE; CIVIL DEFENSE; DISASTER PLANNING; FIRE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PROCEDURES; RESEARCH; TEXT MESSAGING;

SNOW;

CIVIL DEFENSE; COMMUNICATION; CYCLONIC STORMS; DISASTER PLANNING; FIRES; FLOODS; HUMANS; RESEARCH; SNOW; SOCIAL MEDIA; TERRORISM; TEXT MESSAGING;

EID: 84948656366     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1508916112     Document Type: Article

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