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Narratives and Needs: Analyzing Experiences of Cyclone Amphan Using Twitter Discourse by Crayton, Ancil; Fonseca, João; Mehra, Kanav; Ng, Michelle; Ross, Jared; Sandoval-Castañeda, Marcelo; von Gnechten, Rachel is a scholarly article available to read on EtoBox.

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People often turn to social media to comment upon and share information about major global events. Accordingly, social media is receiving increasing attention as a rich data source for understanding people's social, political and economic experiences of extreme weather events. In this paper, we contribute two novel methodologies that leverage Twitter discourse to characterize narratives and identify unmet needs in response to Cyclone Amphan, which affected 18 million people in May 2020.

Author

Crayton, Ancil; Fonseca, João; Mehra, Kanav; Ng, Michelle; Ross, Jared; Sandoval-Castañeda, Marcelo; von Gnechten, Rachel

Published

2020

Language

EN