Determinants of information retweeting in microblogging

Internet Research

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 443-466

  Liu, Zhiming ^a   Liu, Lu ^a   Li, Hong ^a  

^a BEIHANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Blogs; China; Emergency event; Heuristic Systematic Model (HSM); Information retweeting; Microblogging; Sentiment mining; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865128980     PISSN: 10662243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/10662241211250980     Document Type: Article

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