Friends, foes, and fringe: Norms and structure in political discussion networks

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 151, Issue , 2006, Pages 412-417

  Kelly, John W ^a   Fisher, Danyel ^b   Smith, Marc ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Democracy; e government; Online forum; Politics; Public sphere

Indexed keywords

E-GOVERNMENT; MACRO-LEVEL STRUCTURE; ONLINE FORUM;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

ONLINE CONFERENCING;

EID: 34250768940     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1146598.1146727     Document Type: Conference Paper

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