Role of sentiment in message propagation: Reply vs. retweet behavior in political communication

Proceedings of the 2012 ASE International Conference on Social Informatics, SocialInformatics 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 131-136

  Kim, Jihie ^a   Yoo, Jaebong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

discussion in twitter; information propagation; sentiment analysis

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS;

DISCUSSION IN TWITTER; EMOTION EXPRESSION; INFORMATION PROPAGATION; MESSAGE PROPAGATION; POLITICAL COMMUNICATION; PREDICTIVE MODELING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84881032666     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SocialInformatics.2012.33     Document Type: Conference Paper

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