Just keep tweeting: Emergency responders' social media use before and during emergencies

23rd European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2015

Volumn 2015-May, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Van Gorp, Annemijn ^a   Pogrebnyakov, Nicolai ^b   Maldonado, Edgar ^c  

^a THE HAGUE UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^b Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^c METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency response; IT adoption; Organizational IT use; Social media

Indexed keywords

CIVIL DEFENSE; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RISK MANAGEMENT; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT; EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS; EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; IT ADOPTION; ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT; ORGANIZATIONAL IT USE; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EMERGENCY SERVICES;

EID: 85007524325     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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