Twitter Use During an Emergency Event: The Case of UT Austin Shooting

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dc.contributorComputer Science. Digital Library Research Laboratoryen
dc.contributor.authorLi, Lin Tzyen
dc.contributor.authorYang, Seungwonen
dc.contributor.authorKavanaugh, Andrea L.en
dc.contributor.authorFox, Edward A.en
dc.contributor.authorSheetz, Steven D.en
dc.contributor.authorShoemaker, Donald J.en
dc.contributor.departmentDigital Library Research Laboratoryen
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Scienceen
dc.date.accessed2014-09-18en
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-29T19:49:10Zen
dc.date.available2015-05-29T19:49:10Zen
dc.date.issued2011-06-01en
dc.description.abstractThis poster presents one of our efforts developed in the context of Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery Network (CTRnet) project. One of our derived works from this project is the use of social media by government to respond to emergency events in towns and counties. Monitoring social media information for unusual behavior can help identify these events once we can characterize their patterns. As an example, we analyzed the campus shooting occurred in the University of Texas, Austin, on September 28, 2010. In order to study the pattern of communication and the information communicated using social media on that day, we collected publicly available data from Twitter. Collected tweets were analyzed and visualized using Natural Language Toolkit, word clouds, and graphs. They showed how news and posts related to this event swamped the discussions of other issues.en
dc.format.extent2 pagesen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationLi, Lin Tzy, Seungwon Yang, Andrea Kavanaugh, Edward A. Fox, Steven D. Sheetz, Donald Shoemaker. Twitter User During an Emergency Event: the Case of UT Austin Shooting. ACM 2011 Digital Government Research Conference (2011), June 12-15, 2011 (College Park, MD). New York: ACM Press.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/52789en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://eventsarchive.org/sites/default/files/dgo2011-cameraready2.pdfen
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectSchool shootingsen
dc.subjectCrisis informaticsen
dc.subjectMicrobloggingen
dc.subjectNatural language toolkiten
dc.subjectSocial mediaen
dc.subjectWord cloudsen
dc.subjectTwitteren
dc.subjectManagementen
dc.subjectHuman factorsen
dc.subjectExperimentationen
dc.titleTwitter Use During an Emergency Event: The Case of UT Austin Shootingen
dc.typeConference proceedingen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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