Online Information Review: Volume 41 Issue 4

Misinformation in a riot: a two-step flow view

Natalie Pang, Joshua Ng

Misinformation can have lasting impacts in the management and control of a public emergency. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how misinformation flows and how user…

A bibliometric analysis of emergency management using information systems (2000-2016)

Helen S. Du, Xiaobo Ke, Samuel K.W. Chu, Lok Ting Chan

The purpose of this paper is to present a statistical analysis of research into emergency management (EM) using information systems (IS) for the period 2000-2016.

Sentiment analysis model to emphasize the impact of online reviews in healthcare industry

A.M. Abirami, A. Askarunisa

The purpose of this paper is to develop a systematic approach to extract users’ feelings and emotions about their experiences in hospitals from online reviews and rank the places…

Leveraging cross-media analytics to detect events and mine opinions for emergency management

Wei Xu, Lingyu Liu, Wei Shang

Timely detection of emergency events and effective tracking of corresponding public opinions are critical in emergency management. As media are immediate sources of information on…

A study of emergent organizing and technological affordances after a natural disaster

Chih-Hui Lai

Drawing on the model of technology-in-practice and the literature on bona fide approaches and technological affordances, the purpose of this paper is to argue that collectives…

Adverse drug reaction early warning using user search data

Wei Shang, Hsinchun Chen, Christine Livoti

The purpose of this paper is to propose a framework to detect adverse drug reactions (ADRs) using internet user search data, so that ADR events can be identified early. Empirical…

A multi-agent-based online opinion dissemination model for China’s crisis information release policy during hazardous chemical leakage emergencies into rivers

Lean Yu, Ling Li, Ling Tang, Wei Dai, Chihab Hanachi

The purpose of this paper is to develop a multi-agent-based simulation model for the online opinion dissemination during hazardous chemical leakage emergencies into rivers in…

User-generated content on the Facebook page of an emergency management agency: A thematic analysis

Jayan Chirayath Kurian, Blooma Mohan John

The purpose of this paper is to explore themes eventuating from the user-generated content posted by users on the Facebook page of an emergency management agency.