What to expect when the unexpected happens: Social media communications across crises

CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 994-1009

  Olteanu, Alexandra ^a   Vieweg, Sarah ^b   Castillo, Carlos ^b  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b QATAR COMPUTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Emergency Management; Social Media

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DISASTERS; GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RISK MANAGEMENT;

ANECDOTAL EVIDENCES; CRISIS SITUATIONS; DISASTER SITUATIONS; EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION TYPES; NATURAL HAZARD; SOCIAL MEDIA;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84968732826     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675242     Document Type: Conference Paper

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