Exploring virtual communities with the internet community text analyzer (ICTA)

Handbook of Research on Methods and Techniques for Studying Virtual Communities: Paradigms and Phenomena

Volumn 1, Issue , 2011, Pages 205-223

  Gruzd, Anatoliy ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LARGE DATASET; USER INTERFACES; VIRTUAL REALITY; VISUALIZATION;

AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; CONTENT-BASED METHODS; INTERNET COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL CONNECTION; SOCIAL NETWORK DISCOVERIES; TEXT MINING TECHNIQUES; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY; WEB-BASED SYSTEM;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84857950667     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-040-2.ch011     Document Type: Chapter

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