Information interaction in 140 characters or less: Genres on Twitter

IIiX 2010 - Proceedings of the 2010 Information Interaction in Context Symposium

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 323-326

  Westman, Stina ^a   Freund, Luanne ^b  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Genre analysis; Microblogging; Tweet

Indexed keywords

GENRE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION INTERACTION; MICROBLOGGING; TWEET;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 77957961469     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1840784.1840833     Document Type: Conference Paper

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