Is news sharing on twitter ideologically biased?

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 887-896

  Morgan, Jonathan Scott ^a   Shafiq, M Zubair ^b   Lampe, Cliff ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Michigan State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Information flow; Journalism; Online discussion; Political discourse; Social computing and social navigation; Social networking site design and use; Twitter

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; INFORMATION FLOWS; JOURNALISM; ONLINE DISCUSSIONS; POLITICAL DISCOURSE; SOCIAL COMPUTING AND SOCIAL NAVIGATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; TWITTER;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84874868824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2441776.2441877     Document Type: Conference Paper

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