Retransmitting Messages on Social Media in Disasters

• DOI: 10.4018/jgim.367967
• Publication Date: 2025-01-24T07:14:46Z
• Authors: Fang Liu; Andrew Burton-Jones; Wei Wang; Dongming Xu

Retransmitted messages online can have profound effects on disaster response; however, existing literature provides an incomplete account of why are retransmitted social media in disasters. In particular, there is a need to theorize the capabilities communication tools used for sending messages, because nowadays people send via different tools. This paper aims and explain how affect message retransmission by affecting generation characteristics. To test our account, we collected coded Twitter data from three disasters, employed five logistic regressions hypotheses. Our results confirm expectations that compared sent desktops, mobile devices less likely be helpful verifiable, but more visual attachments expressions anxiety.