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Why Students Use Social Networking Sites After Crisis Situations

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dc.contributorVirginia Tech. Department of Computer Science. Digital Library Research Laboratoryen
dc.contributor.authorSheetz, Steven D.en
dc.contributor.authorFox, Edward A.en
dc.contributor.authorFitzgerald, Andrewen
dc.contributor.authorPalmer, Seanen
dc.contributor.authorShoemaker, Donald J.en
dc.contributor.authorKavanaugh, Andrea L.en
dc.contributor.departmentDigital Library Research Laboratoryen
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Scienceen
dc.date.accessed2014-09-05en
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-29T19:49:11Zen
dc.date.available2015-05-29T19:49:11Zen
dc.date.issued2011en
dc.description.abstractCommunities respond to tragedy by making virtuous use of social networking sites for a variety of purposes. We asked students to describe why they used a social networking site after the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech, then evaluated their responses using content analysis. Students went predominantly to Facebook (99%). Most (59%) of the 426 students that responded went there because their friends were already there, and to find out if their friends were OK (28%) (and to let them know they were OK).en
dc.description.notesPresented at ISCRAM 2011, Lisbon, Portugalen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationSheetz, Steven D., Edward A. Fox, Andrew Fitzgerald, Sean Palmer, Donald J. Shoemaker, Andrea Kavanaugh. "Why Students Use Social Networking Sites After Crisis Situations". Poster, 2011.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/52798en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://eventsarchive.org/sites/default/files/ISCRAM2011WhyFacebookPoster.pdfen
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectSocial networkingen
dc.subjectSocial mediaen
dc.subjectCrisesen
dc.subjectContent analysisen
dc.subjectQualitative dataen
dc.titleWhy Students Use Social Networking Sites After Crisis Situationsen
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