Data mining emotion in social network communication: Gender differences in MySpace

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 190-199

  Thelwall, Mike ^a   Wilkinson, David ^a   Uppal, Sukhvinder ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTENT ANALYSIS; GENDER DIFFERENCES; LITTLE RESEARCH; POSITIVE AFFECTS; POSITIVE EMOTIONS; RANDOM SAMPLE; RAPID GROWTH; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 72849107485     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21180     Document Type: Article

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