Document (#42963)

Author

Son, J.
Lee, J.
Larsen, I.
Nissenbaum, K.R.
Woo, J.

Title

Understanding the uncertainty of disaster tweets and its effect on retweeting : the perspectives of uncertainty reduction theory and information entropy

Source

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. 71(2020) no.10, S.1145-1161

Year

2020

Abstract

The rapid and wide dissemination of up-to-date, localized information is a central issue during disasters. Being attributed to the original 140-character length, Twitter provides its users with quick-posting and easy-forwarding features that facilitate the timely dissemination of warnings and alerts. However, a concern arises with respect to the terseness of tweets that restricts the amount of information conveyed in a tweet and thus increases a tweet's uncertainty. We tackle such concerns by proposing entropy as a measure for a tweet's uncertainty. Based on the perspectives of Uncertainty Reduction Theory (URT), we theorize that the more uncertain information of a disaster tweet, the higher the entropy, which will lead to a lower retweet count. By leveraging the statistical and predictive analyses, we provide evidence supporting that entropy validly and reliably assesses the uncertainty of a tweet. This study contributes to improving our understanding of information propagation on Twitter during disasters. Academically, we offer a new variable of entropy to measure a tweet's uncertainty, an important factor influencing disaster tweets' retweeting. Entropy plays a critical role to better comprehend URLs and emoticons as a means to convey information. Practically, this research suggests a set of guidelines for effectively crafting disaster messages on Twitter.

Content

https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asi.24329.

Theme

Internet

Field

Kommunikationswissenschaften

Object

Twitter

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