Partisan asymmetries in online political activity

EPJ Data Science

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-19

  Conover, Michael D ^a   Gonçalves, Bruno ^b   Flammini, Alessandro ^a   Menczer, Filippo ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

CLUSTER MEMBERSHIPS; COMMUNICATION ACTIVITIES; COMMUNICATION NETWORK TOPOLOGY; COMMUNICATION PATTERN; COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS; POLITICAL INFORMATION; SOCIAL INTERACTIONS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84870398813     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931127     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjds6     Document Type: Article

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