Bridging languages in social networks: How multilingual users of Twitter connect language communities?

Proceedings of the ASIST Annual Meeting

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-4

  Eleta, Irene ^a   Golbeck, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Computermediated communication; Information networks; Language bridges; Microblogging; Microblogs; Multilingual communication; Networked languages; Social media; Social network analysis; Social networks; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878598457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15508390     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/meet.14504901327     Document Type: Article

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