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(Melody) Yu-Hua XU

Yu-Hua Xu is a Research Assistant in the Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sports Management at the University of Florida. She is now working towards the completion of Ph.D. degree with a focus on destination resilience and comprehensive crisis management. She had participated in a number of projects for destination development plan and facility management. Her research provides tools for destinations toward a sustainable development. Her studies have been published and presented in industrial leading journals and conferences on regional and international level.

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Terror attacks disturb social order, and impact the communications between stakeholders. Responsible organizations seek to learn the rules of public information dissemination, thus better manage the crisis communication during terror attack. Guided by social capital theory, this study took the 2017 NYC marathon attack and Hawaii false missile alarm as examples and examined which sources the public trusts most during varying phases of terror threats. The study also explored the content of the most retweeted crisis communication information, in an aim to facilitate better communications between emergency responders and the public, which would help the organizations actively accumulate social capital in the long term.

Keywords: Terrorism Attack, Crisis Communication, Social Capital, Social Network, Social Media

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Whom to Listen to? Trusted Source and Retweet Behavior of the NYC Marathon and Hawaii False Alarm

Terror attacks disturb social order, and impact the communications between stakeholders. Responsible organizations seek to learn the rules of public information dissemination, thus better manage the crisis communication during terror attack. Guided by social capital theory, this study took the 2017 NYC marathon attack and Hawaii false missile alarm as examples and examined which sources the public trusts most during varying phases of terror threats. The study also explored the content of the most retweeted crisis communication information, in an aim to facilitate better communications between emergency responders and the public, which would help the organizations actively accumulate social capital in the long term.

Keywords: Terrorism Attack, Crisis Communication, Social Capital, Social Network, Social Media