%0 Conference Paper %1 Olteanu:2015:EUH:2675133.2675242 %A Olteanu, Alexandra %A Vieweg, Sarah %A Castillo, Carlos %B Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work &\#38; Social Computing %C New York, NY, USA %D 2015 %I ACM %K crisis k3 twitter %P 994--1009 %R 10.1145/2675133.2675242 %T What to Expect When the Unexpected Happens: Social Media Communications Across Crises %U http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242 %X The use of social media to communicate timely information during crisis situations has become a common practice in recent years. In particular, the one-to-many nature of Twitter has created an opportunity for stakeholders to disseminate crisis-relevant messages, and to access vast amounts of information they may not otherwise have. Our goal is to understand what affected populations, response agencies and other stakeholders can expect-and not expect-from these data in various types of disaster situations. Anecdotal evidence suggests that different types of crises elicit different reactions from Twitter users, but we have yet to see whether this is in fact the case. In this paper, we investigate several crises-including natural hazards and human-induced disasters-in a systematic manner and with a consistent methodology. This leads to insights about the prevalence of different information types and sources across a variety of crisis situations. %@ 978-1-4503-2922-4

@inproceedings{Olteanu:2015:EUH:2675133.2675242, abstract = {The use of social media to communicate timely information during crisis situations has become a common practice in recent years. In particular, the one-to-many nature of Twitter has created an opportunity for stakeholders to disseminate crisis-relevant messages, and to access vast amounts of information they may not otherwise have. Our goal is to understand what affected populations, response agencies and other stakeholders can expect-and not expect-from these data in various types of disaster situations. Anecdotal evidence suggests that different types of crises elicit different reactions from Twitter users, but we have yet to see whether this is in fact the case. In this paper, we investigate several crises-including natural hazards and human-induced disasters-in a systematic manner and with a consistent methodology. This leads to insights about the prevalence of different information types and sources across a variety of crisis situations.}, acmid = {2675242}, added-at = {2016-01-27T13:47:56.000+0100}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Olteanu, Alexandra and Vieweg, Sarah and Castillo, Carlos}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2d5f02aff8a1382380e2efbd21bfee275/asmelash}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work \&\#38; Social Computing}, description = {What to Expect When the Unexpected Happens}, doi = {10.1145/2675133.2675242}, interhash = {7ceadddaa8b87a7fe42407268a1cf179}, intrahash = {d5f02aff8a1382380e2efbd21bfee275}, isbn = {978-1-4503-2922-4}, keywords = {crisis k3 twitter}, location = {Vancouver, BC, Canada}, numpages = {16}, pages = {994--1009}, publisher = {ACM}, series = {CSCW '15}, timestamp = {2016-01-27T13:47:56.000+0100}, title = {What to Expect When the Unexpected Happens: Social Media Communications Across Crises}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2675133.2675242}, year = 2015 }