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Disasters expose gaps in emergency services’ social media use

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Title
Disasters expose gaps in emergency services’ social media use
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The Conversation
DOI 10.64628/aa.9cxsf3fxa
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Yigitcanlar, Tan, Kankanamge, Nayomi, Goonetilleke, Ashantha

Abstract

Australian emergency services are using social media for a number of purposes during disasters. What they are not doing well is analysing social media data in real time to improve disaster management.

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 15. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 May 2020.
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