Pass it on?: Retweeting in mass emergency

By Kate Starbird, Leysia Palen. International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 2010

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Rapid assessment of disaster damage using social media activity (2016, background): “This extends the previous understanding of retweeting behavior in crisis ( 31 , 32 ) and confirms other studies ( 41 ).”
Community Intelligence and Social Media Services: A Rumor Theoretic Analysis of Tweets During Social Crises (2013, background): “Social media services and consumer computing devices are rapidly changing the way we are creating, distributing, and sharing emergency information during social crises (Palen et al. 2010; Palen et al. 2009; Shklovski et al. 2010; Shklovski et al. 2008; Starbird and Palen 2010).”
Communicating on Twitter during a disaster: An analysis of tweets during Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines (2015, background): “…environmental communication (e.g. Binder, 2012), crisis and risk communication (e.g. Bruns & Burgess, 2013), information technologies (e.g. Starbird & Palen, 2010), and disaster management (e.g. Veil, Buehner, & Palenchar, 2011), among others, that focus on the role of social media in…”
Socializing in emergencies - A review of the use of social media in emergency situations (2015, background): “Users often mark their posts with topic labels, named “hashtags”, which are used as operational proxies to identify messages (Weng, Flammini, Vespignani, & Menczer, 2012), and help others understand the context of the message (Starbird & Palen, 2010).”
Towards more systematic Twitter analysis: metrics for tweeting activities (2013, background): “…#libya (for the Libyan popular revolt in 2011); this group contains substantial numbers of URLs as well as retwe-ets, pointing to a use of Twitter for gatewatching (Bruns, 2005) – that is, for ﬁ nding, sharing and re-sharing relevant information on these topics (also cf. Starbird & Palen, 2010).”
A vision for technology-mediated support for public participation & assistance in mass emergencies & disasters (2010, background): “…is producing analyses that describe such behavior, particularly with respect to microblogging activity, (Starbird et al, 2010; Vieweg et al, 2010; Starbird & Palen, 2010), and is supporting the development of information integration and data mining techniques for accurate, informative…”
(How) will the revolution be retweeted?: information diffusion and the 2011 Egyptian uprising (2012, methodology): “The number of times that an account is retweeted can be used as a measure of popularity [8] or, during a specific, mass disruption event, an implicit recommendation by the crowd that an account is a useful source of information [21].”
CrisisLex: A Lexicon for Collecting and Filtering Microblogged Communications in Crises (2014, background): “During crises, numerous disaster-related messages are posted to microblogging sites, which has led to research on understanding social media use in disasters (Starbird and Palen 2010; Qu et al. 2011), and extracting useful information (Imran et al.”
Microblogging after a major disaster in China: a case study of the 2010 Yushu earthquake (2011, background): “Starbird and Palen [20] analyzed what types of information are more likely to be retweeted after disaster events.”
Pandemics in the Age of Twitter: Content Analysis of Tweets during the 2009 H1N1 Outbreak (2010, background): “Similarly, other studies have shown that retweets must have either broad appeal or provide specific details of local utility to be widely propagated [27].”