Why I Retweet? Exploring User’s Perspective on Decision-Making of Information Spreading during Disasters
The extensive use of social media during disasters raises an important issue concerning use of social media to spread information, including misinformation. This study explores the underlying behavioral context of disaster information sharing by Twitter users. We conducted a web survey with 999...
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| author | Abdullah, Nor Athiyah Nishioka , Dai Tanaka, Yuko Murayama, Yuko |
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| description | The extensive use of social media during disasters
raises an important issue concerning use of social
media to spread information, including
misinformation. This study explores the underlying
behavioral context of disaster information sharing by
Twitter users. We conducted a web survey with 999
respondents in Japan to determine what makes people
retweet disaster information in disaster situations. As a
result of factor analysis, four factors were identified
from 36 questions, namely: 1) Willingness to provide
relevant and updated information because the
information is believable, 2) Want people to know the
information they perceive as important, 3)
“Retweeter” subjective feelings and interests, and 4)
Want to get feedback and alert other people. The
results suggest that two of the factors influenced
different groups of people in the community differently;
however, everybody can play their role to reduce the
negative impact of social media used for future
disaster. Based on the findings, we discuss practical
and design implications of social media use during
disasters. |
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| spelling | usm-319742017-02-08T07:44:42Z http://eprints.usm.my/31974/ Why I Retweet? Exploring User’s Perspective on Decision-Making of Information Spreading during Disasters Abdullah, Nor Athiyah Nishioka , Dai Tanaka, Yuko Murayama, Yuko QA76.75-76.765 Computer software The extensive use of social media during disasters raises an important issue concerning use of social media to spread information, including misinformation. This study explores the underlying behavioral context of disaster information sharing by Twitter users. We conducted a web survey with 999 respondents in Japan to determine what makes people retweet disaster information in disaster situations. As a result of factor analysis, four factors were identified from 36 questions, namely: 1) Willingness to provide relevant and updated information because the information is believable, 2) Want people to know the information they perceive as important, 3) “Retweeter” subjective feelings and interests, and 4) Want to get feedback and alert other people. The results suggest that two of the factors influenced different groups of people in the community differently; however, everybody can play their role to reduce the negative impact of social media used for future disaster. Based on the findings, we discuss practical and design implications of social media use during disasters. 2017-01-03 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by http://eprints.usm.my/31974/1/NorAthiyah_MUHA_HICSS.pdf Abdullah, Nor Athiyah and Nishioka , Dai and Tanaka, Yuko and Murayama, Yuko (2017) Why I Retweet? Exploring User’s Perspective on Decision-Making of Information Spreading during Disasters. In: The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS, 3-7 January 2017, Hawaii, United States of America. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/41202 |
| spellingShingle | QA76.75-76.765 Computer software Abdullah, Nor Athiyah Nishioka , Dai Tanaka, Yuko Murayama, Yuko Why I Retweet? Exploring User’s Perspective on Decision-Making of Information Spreading during Disasters |
| title | Why I Retweet? Exploring User’s Perspective on Decision-Making of Information Spreading during Disasters |
| title_full | Why I Retweet? Exploring User’s Perspective on Decision-Making of Information Spreading during Disasters |
| title_fullStr | Why I Retweet? Exploring User’s Perspective on Decision-Making of Information Spreading during Disasters |
| title_full_unstemmed | Why I Retweet? Exploring User’s Perspective on Decision-Making of Information Spreading during Disasters |
| title_short | Why I Retweet? Exploring User’s Perspective on Decision-Making of Information Spreading during Disasters |
| title_sort | why i retweet? exploring user’s perspective on decision-making of information spreading during disasters |
| topic | QA76.75-76.765 Computer software |
| url | http://eprints.usm.my/31974/ http://eprints.usm.my/31974/ http://eprints.usm.my/31974/1/NorAthiyah_MUHA_HICSS.pdf |