Noise, bias, and expertise in political communication networks

Social Networks

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 110-121

  Huckfeldt, Robert ^a   Pietryka, Matthew T ^a   Reilly, Jack ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW COLLEGE OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication networks; Expertise; Opinion leaders; Persuasion

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888040675     PISSN: 03788733     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2013.02.003     Document Type: Article

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