Rumors at the speed of light? modeling the rate of rumor transmission during crisis

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 2016-March, Issue , 2016, Pages 1969-1978

  Zeng, Li ^a   Starbird, Kate ^b   Spiro, Emma S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

CONTEXT FEATURES; CRISIS INFORMATICS; DYNAMIC INFORMATION SPACE; EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; INFORMATION TRANSMISSION; RETRANSMISSION TIME; RUMOR TRANSMISSION; TRANSMISSION SPEED;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84975500441     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2016.248     Document Type: Conference Paper

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