Social media and social reality: Theory, evidence and validation

ISI 2010 - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics: Public Safety and Security

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 221-226

  Reynolds, William N ^a   Weber, Marta S ^a   Farber, Robert M ^b   Corley, Courtney ^b   Cowell, Andrew J ^b   Gregory, Michelle ^b  

^a Least Squares Software Inc   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Blogs; Graph theory; Method; Multimethod; Opinion leaders; Scale free networks; Social media; Social science; Supercomputing; Thought leaders; Twitter; Validation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; MULTI METHODS; OPINION LEADERS; PARALLEL SUPERCOMPUTER; RIGOROUS VALIDATION; SCALE FREE NETWORKS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL REALITY;

GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION SCIENCE; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); SOCIAL SCIENCES; SUPERCOMPUTERS;

INTERNET;

EID: 77954800926     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISI.2010.5484733     Document Type: Conference Paper

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