Mapping the public agenda with topic modeling: The case of the Russian LiveJournal

Policy and Internet

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 207-227

  Koltsova, Olessia ^a   Koltcov, Sergei ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY HIGHER SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

blogs; LDA; online public opinion; political protests; Russia; topic modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880716210     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19442866     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1944-2866.POI331     Document Type: Article

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