Paper Info
Title
Twitter use during an emergency event: the case of the UT Austin shooting
Abstract
This poster presents one of our efforts in the context of the Crisis, Tragedy, and Recovery Network (CTRnet) project. One topic studied in 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 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 the Natural Language Toolkit, word clouds, and graphs. They showed how news and posts related to this event swamped the discussions of other issues.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2037556.2037613
DG.O
Keywords
Field
DocType
twitter use,word cloud,unusual behavior,available data,ut austin shooting,recovery network,natural language toolkit,monitoring social media information,emergency event,social media,campus shooting,natural language,microblogging
Graph,Crisis informatics,World Wide Web,Tragedy,Social media,Computer science,Microblogging,Natural language,Government
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.77
2
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lin Tzy Li1679.30
Seungwon Yang2283.61
Andrea Kavanaugh312633.29
Edward A. Fox43966921.62
Steven D. Sheetz521624.36
Donald Shoemaker6131.93
Travis Whalen781.45
Venkat Srinivasan8205.79