Finding and assessing social media information sources in the context of journalism

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2451-2460

  Diakopoulos, Nicholas ^a   De Choudhury, Munmun ^b   Naaman, Mor ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational journalism; News events; Social media

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL JOURNALISM; HUMAN-CENTERED DESIGNS; INFORMATION PRODUCTION; INFORMATION SOURCES; NEWS EVENTS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOURCING PRACTICES;

PSYCHOLOGY COMPUTING;

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

EID: 84862076178     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2207676.2208409     Document Type: Conference Paper

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