On the morning of Thursday February 4, 2016 all faculty, staff and students were alerted to an emergency situation on Vancouver Island University’s Nanaimo campus. The alerts came through our desktop alerts system which provided information on the situation on
Anatomy of an incident: Helicopter crash at UCT
This work was inspired by the “Anatomy of the Osama Tweet“, in which the news of Osama Bin Laden’s death spreads just before it was officially announced by U.S. President Obama. Naturally the original speculative tweet spread virally through Twitter. My colleague Andrew Deacon and I have undertaken a similar analysis of information flows during […]