How people respond to a catastrophe on social media
Friday, October 31, 2014 - 08:01
in Psychology & Sociology
When an earthquake hits, it makes more than just seismic waves. Extreme events such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and terrorist attacks also produce waves of immediate online social interactions, in the form of Tweets, that offer insights into the event itself and to broader questions of how communities of people respond to disaster.