Mining the Blogosphere: Age, gender and the varieties of self-expression

First Monday

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2007, Pages

  Argamon, Shlomo ^a   Konnel, Moshe ^b   Pennebaker, James W ^c   Schier, Jonathan ^b  

^a Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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EID: 34548688436     PISSN: 13960466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5210/fm.v12i9.2003     Document Type: Article

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