A comparative study of social media and traditional polling in the Egyptian uprising of 2011

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

Volumn 7812 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 303-310

  Weiss, Lora ^a   Briscoe, Erica ^a   Hayes, Heather ^a   Kemenova, Olga ^a   Harbert, Sim ^a   Li, Fuxin ^a   Lebanon, Guy ^a   Stewart, Chris ^b   Steiger, Darby Miller ^b   Foy, Dan ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Gallup Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Arab Spring; Polling; Sentiment analysis; Social Media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EGYPTIANS; INFORMATION SOURCES; POLLING; REAL-TIME INFORMATION; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK SITES; TIME-PERIODS; TWITTER; TWO SOURCES;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84874802046     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-37210-0_33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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