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Understanding the rapid information diffusion process in social media is critical for crisis management. Most of existing studies mainly focus on information diffusion patterns under the word-of-mouth spread mechanism. However, to date, the mass-media spread mechanism in social media is still not well studied. In this paper, we take the emergency event of Wenzhou train crash as a case and conduct an empirical analysis, utilizing geospatial correlation analysis and social network analysis, to explore the mass-meida spread mechanism in social media. By using the approach of agent-based modeling, we further make a quantativiely comparison with the information diffusion patterns under the word-of-mouth spread mechanism. Our exprimental results show that the mass-meida spread mechanism plays a more important role than that of the word-of-mouth in the information diffusion process during emergency events. The results of this paper can provide significant potential implications for crisis management.
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Cui, K., Zheng, X., Zeng, D.D., Zhang, Z., Luo, C., He, S. (2013). An Empirical Study of Information Diffusion in Micro-blogging Systems during Emergency Events. In: Gao, Y., et al. Web-Age Information Management. WAIM 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7901. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39527-7_16
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