Vocal minority versus silent majority: Discovering the opionions of the long tail

Proceedings - 2011 IEEE International Conference on Privacy, Security, Risk and Trust and IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, PASSAT/SocialCom 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 103-110

  Mustafaraj, Eni ^a   Finn, Samantha ^a   Whitlock, Carolyn ^a   Metaxas, Panagiotis T ^a  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FACEBOOK; LONG TAIL; MASSACHUSETTS; POLITICAL EVENTS; PREDICTIVE MODELS; SEARCH RESULTS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; US SENATE;

SEARCH ENGINES; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84856145630     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PASSAT/SocialCom.2011.188     Document Type: Conference Paper

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