Political communication and influence through microblogging - An empirical analysis of sentiment in Twitter messages and retweet behavior

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3500-3509

  Stieglitz, Stefan ^a   Dang Xuan, Linh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; MICRO-BLOGGING SERVICES; MOST INFLUENTIAL USERS; POLITICAL COMMUNICATION; POLITICAL PARTICIPATIONS; POLITICAL PARTIES; POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EMOTIONS;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84857958272     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2012.476     Document Type: Conference Paper

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