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The Nature of Communications and Emerging Communities on Twitter Following the 2013 Syria Sarin Gas Attacks
2014
2014 IEEE Joint Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference
Social media has become an important communication tool especially following an extreme event. Research in social psychology has shown that people engage in gathering and "milling" information, and confirmation seeking during the process of forming intent to take action or voice an opinion. Twitter serves as a communications channel where people converge to compile collective intelligence, provide event reporting, and diffuse information. In this paper the investigation of Twitter usage seeks
doi:10.1109/jisic.2014.16
dblp:conf/isi/TyshchukWLJK14
fatcat:nfif43hqs5ghnn45qee4lrj2fy