Choice of information: A study of twitter news sharing during the 2009 israel-gaza conflict

International Conference on Information Systems 2011, ICIS 2011

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 953-964

  Kwon, Kyounghee ^a   Oh, Onook ^b   Agrawal, Manish ^c   Rao, H R ^d  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^d Sogang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Gatekeeping; Gaza; Metajournalism; Social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

GATEKEEPING; GAZA; METAJOURNALISM; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER;

INFORMATION FILTERING; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84884606791     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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