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Amanda Lee Hughes
Researcher at Utah State University
Publications - 31
Citations - 5534
Amanda Lee Hughes is an academic researcher from Utah State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social media & Emergency management. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 31 publications receiving 5116 citations. Previous affiliations of Amanda Lee Hughes include University of Colorado Boulder.
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Microblogging during two natural hazards events: what twitter may contribute to situational awareness
TL;DR: Analysis of microblog posts generated during two recent, concurrent emergency events in North America via Twitter, a popular microblogging service, aims to inform next steps for extracting useful, relevant information during emergencies using information extraction (IE) techniques.
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Twitter adoption and use in mass convergence and emergency events
Amanda Lee Hughes,Leysia Palen +1 more
TL;DR: The findings suggest that Twitter messages sent during these types of events contain more displays of information broadcasting and brokerage, and that general Twitter use seems to have evolved over time to offer more of an information-sharing purpose.
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Chatter on the red: what hazards threat reveals about the social life of microblogged information
TL;DR: This paper considers a subset of the computer-mediated communication that took place during the flooding of the Red River Valley in the US and Canada in March and April 2009, focusing on the use of Twitter, a microblogging service, to identify mechanisms of information production, distribution, and organization.
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Crisis in a Networked World
TL;DR: This article examined features of computer-mediated communication and information sharing activity during and after the April 16, 2007, crisis at Virginia Tech by members of the public and considered consequences that these technology-supported social interactions have on emergency response and implications for methods in e-Social Science.
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Online public communications by police & fire services during the 2012 Hurricane Sandy
TL;DR: It is proposed that flexibility is important in considering future emergency online communication policy, and design recommendations for making online communication media more "listenable" for both emergency managers and members of the public are proposed.