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#Ebola and Twitter: lessons learned
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Background: Twitter plays a role in information distribution during emergencies, and it is widely used by public health organisations during public health crises. Twitter has facilitated transmission of both accurate information and misinformation during the West African Ebola outbreak.
Study objective: To investigate the ways in which Twitter was used during the West African Ebola outbreak by the general Twitter population as well as by the World H...
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+ Van Loggerenberg, F
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
NDM
Role:
Supervisor
+ Ariana, P
Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
NDM
Role:
Supervisor
Funding
Splunk4Good, Splunk Inc.
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Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- MSc by Research
- Level of award:
- Masters
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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- Language:
- English
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- Deposit date:
- 2016-03-22
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- Copyright holder:
- Vorovchenko, T; Tatiana Vorovchenko
- Copyright date:
- 2015
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