Connected through crisis: Emotional proximity and the spread of misinformation online

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

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 969-980

  Linlin Huang, Y ^a   Starbird, Kate ^a   Orand, Mania ^a   Stanek, Stephanie A ^a   Pedersen, Heather T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

collective intelligence; crisis informatics; information sharing; misinformation; rumoring; Social computing; social media

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; GROUPWARE; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION USE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCES; CRISIS INFORMATICS; INFORMATION SHARING; MISINFORMATION; RUMORING; SOCIAL COMPUTING; SOCIAL MEDIA;

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION;

EID: 84968815882     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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