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Cumulative and Comparative Social Media Analytics for Crisis Communication (AoIR 2013)

AoIR 2013

Cumulative and Comparative Social Media Analytics for Crisis Communication

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, and Avijit Paul


This paper draws on comparative analyses of Twitter data sets – over time and across different kinds of natural disasters and different national contexts – to demonstrate the value of shared, cumulative approaches to social media analytics in the context of crisis communication.