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Communicating During Chaos: New Research from Petrescu-Prahova and Colleagues Explores Communication Records from the World Trade Center Disaster

Posted: 4/29/2022 (CSDE in the News)

New research is now available in pre-print on arXiv from CSDE Affiliate Miruna Petrescu-Prahova and several co-authors from UC Irvine. The paper uses communication records from 17 organizational units to examine the mechanisms driving communication dynamics, with an emphasis on the emergence of coordinating roles. The authors employ relational event models (REMs) to identify the mechanisms shaping communications in each unit, finding a consistent pattern of behavior across units with very different characteristics.

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