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JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
卷 71, 期 10, 页码 1145-1161出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/asi.24329
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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 & apos;s uncertainty. We tackle such concerns by proposing entropy as a measure for a tweet & apos;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 & apos;s uncertainty, an important factor influencing disaster tweets & apos; 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.
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