Kumar, P;
(2020)
Paper 4: Twitter, disasters and cultural heritage: A case study of the 2015 Nepal earthquake.
Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
10.1111/1468-5973.12333.
(In press).
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Abstract
The purpose of this paper was to understand how Twitter users responded to the cultural heritage damaged during the 2015 Nepal earthquake. This paper utilizes 201,457 tweets (including retweets) from three different data sets. The analysis shows that approximately 4% of tweets were regarding cultural heritage. Moreover, asymmetrical information was available on Twitter regarding cultural heritage during the Nepal earthquake, that is not every site received equal attention from the public. Damaged sites received more attention than unaffected sites. The content of tweets can be divided into five categories: information, sentiment, memory, action and noise. Most people (89.1%) used Twitter during the disaster to disseminate information regarding damaged cultural heritage sites.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Paper 4: Twitter, disasters and cultural heritage: A case study of the 2015 Nepal earthquake |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1468-5973.12333 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-5973.12333 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution‐NonCommercial‐NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non‐commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | 2015 Nepal earthquake, cultural heritage, disasters, social media, Twitter |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Bartlett School Env, Energy and Resources |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10115085 |
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