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Patric R. Spence
Researcher at University of Central Florida
Publications - 132
Citations - 4722
Patric R. Spence is an academic researcher from University of Central Florida. The author has contributed to research in topics: Crisis communication & Social media. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 122 publications receiving 3759 citations. Previous affiliations of Patric R. Spence include Calvin College & Wayne State University.
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Social Media as Information Source: Recency of Updates and Credibility of Information
TL;DR: Data indicate that recency of tweets impacts source credibility; however, this relationship is mediated by cognitive elaboration, which suggests many implications for theory and application, both in computer-mediated communication and crisis communication.
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A social network as information: The effect of system generated reports of connectedness on credibility on Twitter
TL;DR: Examination of system-generated cues available in social media impact perceptions of a source's credibility indicates that curvilinear effects for number of followers exist, such that having too many or too few connections results in lower judgments of expertise and trustworthiness.
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Is that a bot running the social media feed? Testing the differences in perceptions of communication quality for a human agent and a bot agent on Twitter
TL;DR: Findings suggest that Twitterbots are perceived as credible, attractive, competent in communication, and interactional and there were no differences in the perceptions of source credibility, communication competence, or interactional intentions between the bot and human Twitter agents.
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Crisis Communication, Race, and Natural Disasters
TL;DR: The authors compared differences in crisis preparation, information-seeking patterns, and media use on the basis of race in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and found that there is a continued need to create messages encouraging crisis preparation.
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Social media and crisis management
TL;DR: In this paper, a multi-level content analysis of tweets collected in the lead up to landfall suggests that emergency management agencies largely underutilized the medium, and that actionable information was easier to find when searching along localized hashtags.