Taking sides: User classification for informal online political discourse

Internet Research

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 177-190

  Malouf, Robert ^a   Mullen, Tony ^b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TSUDA COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Databases; Online operations; Politics; United States of America

Indexed keywords

EID: 41649089293     PISSN: 10662243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10662240810862239     Document Type: Article

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