Social media and political communication: a social media analytics framework

Social Network Analysis and Mining

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1277-1291

  Stieglitz, Stefan ^a   Dang Xuan, Linh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Framework; Political communication; Social media; Social media analytics

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL SCIENCES; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

FRAMEWORK; METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORKS; MICRO-BLOGGING SERVICES; POLITICAL COMMUNICATION; POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS; POLITICAL PARTICIPATIONS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84874479541     PISSN: 18695450     EISSN: 18695469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13278-012-0079-3     Document Type: Article

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