Secular vs. Islamist polarization in Egypt on Twitter

Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 290-297

  Weber, Ingmar ^a   Garimella, Venkata R Kiran ^a   Batayneh, Alaa ^b  

^a QATAR COMPUTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Qatar)

^b AlJazeera Network   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLARIZATION;

DATA-DRIVEN ANALYSIS; EGYPTIANS; EXTENDED NETWORKS; HAND IN HANDS; HASHTAGS; ON-LINE COMMUNICATION; POLITICAL ORIENTATION; PUBLIC DATA;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84893213946     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2492517.2492557     Document Type: Conference Paper

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