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Pass it on?: Retweeting in mass emergency
Kate Starbird
author
Leysia Palen
author
2010
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
Seattle, WA
English
We examine microblogged information generated during two different co-occurring natural hazards events in Spring 2009. Due to its rapid and widespread adoption, microblogging in emergency response is a place for serious consideration and experimentation for future application. Because microblogging is comprised of a set of practices shaped by a number of forces, it is important to measure and describe the diffuse, multiparty information exchange behaviors to anticipate how emergency governance might best play a role. Here we direct consideration toward information propagation properties in the Twitterverse, describing features of information redistribution related to the retweet (RT ) convention. Our analysis shows that during an emergency, for tweets authored by local users and tweets that contain emergency-related search terms, retweets are more likely than non-retweets to be about the event. We note that users are more likely to retweet information originally distributed through Twitter accounts run by media, especially the local media, and traditional service organizations. Comparing local users to the broader audience, we also find that tweet-based information redistribution is different for those who are local to an emergency event.
Fires
Floods
Hardware
Collective intelligences
Crisis informatics
Information convergence
Microblogging
Social cognition
Information systems
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ISCRAM 2010 – 7th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management: Defining Crisis Management 3.0, Proceedings
ISCRAM 2010
S. French
B
Tomaszewski
editor
7th International ISCRAM Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
2010
Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, ISCRAM
Seattle, WA
conference publication
2411-3387
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