Mining the blogosphere for sociological inferences

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 94 CCIS, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 547-558

  Singh, Vivek Kumar ^a  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Blogosphere; Collective Intelligence; Cross Cultural Psychology; Social Computing; Web Mining

Indexed keywords

BLOGOSPHERES; COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCES; CROSS CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL COMPUTING; WEB MINING;

INTERNET;

BLOGS;

EID: 77957000060     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-14834-7_51     Document Type: Conference Paper

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