Mining Twitter Data for Improved Understanding of Disaster Resilience

Annals of the American Association of Geographers

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 1422-1441

  Zou, Lei ^a   Lam, Nina S N ^a   Cai, Heng ^a   Qiang, Yi ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

geographical and social disparities in disaster resilience; Hurricane Sandy; social media; Twitter use

Indexed keywords

DISASTER MANAGEMENT; HURRICANE SANDY 2012; INTERNET; SOCIAL MEDIA;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 85044077100     PISSN: 24694452     EISSN: 24694460     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2017.1421897     Document Type: Article

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