Public policy formulation through non moderated crowdsourcing in social media

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7444 LNCS, Issue , 2012, Pages 156-169

  Charalabidis, Yannis ^a   Triantafillou, Anna ^b   Karkaletsis, Vangelis ^c   Loukis, Euripidis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b Athens Technology Center   (Greece)

^c INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

Author keywords

crowdsourcing; e participation; public policy; sentiment analysis; social media; visual analytics

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; E-PARTICIPATION; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA; VISUAL ANALYTICS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 84866029187     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-33250-0_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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