A humanistic approach to the study of social media: Combining social network analysis & case study research

SIGDOC'11 - Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 257-260

  Kelly, Ashley Rose ^a   Kittle Autry, Meagan ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

case study research; humanities; social media; social network analysis

Indexed keywords

CASE STUDY RESEARCH; HUMANITIES; MULTI-MEDIA; NETWORK STRUCTURES; RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; TEXT-BASED APPROACH;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 80054782123     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2038476.2038525     Document Type: Conference Paper

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