Mining communities and their relationships in blogs: A study of online hate groups

International Journal of Human Computer Studies

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 57-70

  Chau, Michael ^a   Xu, Jennifer ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blogs; Hate groups; Social network analysis; Web mining

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL ASPECTS; WEBSITES;

BLOGS; HATE GROUPS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; WEB MINING;

ELECTRONIC COMMUNITIES;

EID: 33751163289     PISSN: 10715819     EISSN: 10959300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijhcs.2006.08.009     Document Type: Article

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