Of joy and gender: Emotional expression in online social networks

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 139-142

  Kivran Swaine, Funda ^a   Brody, Sam ^a   Diakopoulos, Nicholas ^a   Naaman, Mor ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

communication; emotion; linguistics; social media

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION PATTERN; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIONS; ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; POSITIVE EMOTIONS; SOCIAL MEDIA;

COMMUNICATION; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; LINGUISTICS;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 84858263099     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2141512.2141562     Document Type: Conference Paper

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