A social networking exploration of political blogging in Greece

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5288 LNAI, Issue , 2008, Pages 573-582

  Zafiropoulos, Kostas ^a   Vrana, Vasiliki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SERRES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blog authority; Blogs; Closeness; Connectivity; Core groups; Focal points; Greece; Links distribution; PASOK; Patterns; Political blogs; Skewedness; Social networking

Indexed keywords

BLOG AUTHORITY; BLOGS; CLOSENESS; CONNECTIVITY; CORE GROUPS; FOCAL POINTS; GREECE; LINKS DISTRIBUTION; PASOK; PATTERNS; POLITICAL BLOGS; SKEWEDNESS; SOCIAL NETWORKING;

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EID: 56649121772     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87781-3_62     Document Type: Conference Paper

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