Small worlds with a difference: New gatekeepers and the filtering of political information on twitter

Proceedings of the 3rd International Web Science Conference, WebSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Jürgens, Pascal ^a   Jungherr, Andreas ^b   Schoen, Harald ^b  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bundestagswahl 2009; Entropy; Gatekeepers; Network analysis; Political communication; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; INFORMATION FILTERING; SMALL-WORLD NETWORKS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BUNDESTAGSWAHL 2009; DIRECTED NETWORK; GATEKEEPER; GENERAL ELECTIONS; MEDIA OUTLETS; NETWORK PLATFORMS; POLITICAL COMMUNICATION; POLITICAL INFORMATION; SMALL WORLDS; TWITTER;

ENTROPY;

EID: 84893274228     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2527031.2527034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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