Properties of social network in an internet political discussion forum

Advances in Complex Systems

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Sobkowicz, Pawel ^a   Sobkowicz, Antoni ^b  

^a KEN 94/140   (Poland)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

agent based simulations; Internet discussions; polarization; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865517081     PISSN: 02195259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219525912500622     Document Type: Conference Paper

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