Gender,topic, and audience response: An analysis of user-generated content on Facebook

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 31-34

  Wang, Yi Chia ^a   Burke, Moira ^b   Kraut, Robert ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b FACEBOOK   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer mediated communication; Facebook; Gender; Natural language analysis; Social networking sites; Topics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION; FACEBOOK; GENDER; NATURAL LANGUAGE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES; TOPICS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; STATISTICS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84877981035     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2470654.2470659     Document Type: Conference Paper

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