People are strange when you're a stranger: Impact and influence of bots on social networks

ICWSM 2012 - Proceedings of the 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 10-17

  Aiello, Luca Maria ^a   Deplano, Martina ^a   Schifanella, Rossano ^a   Ruffo, Giancarlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

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Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS; EMOTIONAL RESPONSE; HUMAN BEHAVIORS; POLARIZATION PATTERNS; SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS; SOCIAL MEDIA; USER BEHAVIORS;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DIGITAL STORAGE; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84884537892     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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