Think local, retweet global: Retweeting by the geographically-vulnerable during hurricane sandy

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

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 981-993

  Kogan, Marina ^a   Palen, Leysia ^a   Anderson, Kenneth M ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis informatics; Disasters; Protective Decision Making; Social Computing; Social Media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DECISION MAKING; DISASTERS; GROUPWARE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CRISIS INFORMATICS; GLOBALLY CONVERGENT; INFORMATION PROPAGATION; SOCIAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER;

HURRICANES;

EID: 84968791837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675218     Document Type: Conference Paper

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