Microblogging after a major disaster in China: a case study of the 2010 Yushu earthquake

By Yanchun Qu, Chen Huang, Pengyi Zhang, Jun Zhang. Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2011

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Communication, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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(How) will the revolution be retweeted?: information diffusion and the 2011 Egyptian uprising (2012, methodology): “Research indicates that Twitter has been employed to seek information [27], solicit donations [18], organize volunteers [22], publicize the names of missing persons [11], and broadcast immediate needs [18], among other uses.”
Communicating on Twitter during a disaster: An analysis of tweets during Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines (2015, background): “Recent crisis communication scholarship (e.g. Sellnow & Seeger, 2013) does not fully incorporate social media in theoretical propositions.”
Twitter as Data (2018, background): “Like with Twitter, many studies focus on event analysis (Qu et al., 2011; Guan et al., 2014), its use during crisis events (Guan et al.”
Rumors, False Flags, and Digital Vigilantes: Misinformation on Twitter after the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing (2014, background): “Researchers in the emerging field of crisis informatics have identified different public uses of social media during crises: to share information (e.g. Palen & Liu, 2007; Palen et al., 2010; Qu et al., 2011), to participate in collaborative sense-making (Heverin & Zach, 2012), and to contribute to r”
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.”
Predicting Responses to Microblog Posts (2012, background): “Popescu and Pen-nacchiotti (2011) and Qu et al. (2011) investigated how users react to events on social media.”
Comparison and Modelling of Country-level Microblog User and Activity in Cyber-physical-social Systems Using Weibo and Twitter Data (2019, background): “Similarly, some studies [23, 24] have investigated utilisation of microblogging user dataset for earthquake detection.”
What to Expect When the Unexpected Happens: Social Media Communications Across Crises (2015, background): “, wildfires [50], drug wars [29], floods [6, 45], earthquake [39], nuclear power plant [46], to name a few).”