Metrics for monitoring a social-political blogosphere: A Malaysian case study

IEEE Internet Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 34-44

  Ulicny, Brian ^a   Kokar, Mieczyslaw ^a   Matheus, Christopher ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Credibility; Information retrieval; Malaysia; Political impact of blogging; Relevance; Specificity; Timeliness

Indexed keywords

BLOGGERS; BLOGGING; BLOGOSPHERES; GENERAL ELECTIONS; HYPERLINK STRUCTURE; MALAYSIA; MALAYSIANS; POLITICAL IMPACT; POLITICAL IMPACT OF BLOGGING;

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET;

BLOGS;

EID: 77949550402     PISSN: 10897801     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2010.22     Document Type: Article

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