Verifying news on the social web: Challenges and prospects

WWW 2013 Companion - Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 875-878

  Schifferes, Steve ^a   Newman, Nic ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breaking news; Journalists; Social media; Verification

Indexed keywords

BREAKING NEWS; FINDING SOLUTIONS; JOURNALIST; KEY ISSUES; MAGIC BULLETS; MULTI-FACETED APPROACH; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL WEBS; USER-CENTERED APPROACH;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84893152905     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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