Commenting on YouTube videos: From guatemalan rock to El Big Bang

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 616-629

  Thelwall, Mike ^a   Sud, Pardeep ^a   Vis, Farida ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIENCE REACTION; BIG BANG; YOUTUBE;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

WEBSITES;

EID: 84857650076     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21679     Document Type: Review

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