Quantitative Approaches to Comparing Communication Patterns on Twitter

Journal of Technology in Human Services

Volumn 30, Issue , 2012, Pages 160-185

  Bruns, Axel ^a   Stieglitz, Stefan ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

communicative patterns; media events; public communication; social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874487971     PISSN: 15228835     EISSN: 15228991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15228835.2012.744249     Document Type: Article

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