Occupy Wall Street: A New Political Form of Movement and Community?

Journal of Information Technology and Politics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 444-461

  Jensen, Michael J ^a   Bang, Henrik P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

natural language processing; political participation; Social movements; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889643694     PISSN: 19331681     EISSN: 1933169X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19331681.2013.803948     Document Type: Article

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