What it Takes to Get Passed On: Message Content, Style, and Structure as Predictors of Retransmission in the Boston Marathon Bombing Response

• Jeannette Sutton,

  Affiliation Department of Communication, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States of America

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• C. Ben Gibson,

  Affiliation Department of Sociology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America

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• Emma S. Spiro,

  Affiliation Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States of America

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• Cedar League,

  Affiliation Trauma, Health and Hazards Center, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO, United States of America

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• Sean M. Fitzhugh,

  Affiliation Department of Sociology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America

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• Carter T. Butts

  * E-mail: buttsc@uci.edu

  Affiliations Department of Sociology, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America, Department of Statistics, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States of America

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