Analyzing the impact of social media on social movements: A computational study on Twitter and the Occupy Wall Street movement

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1259-1266

  Tan, Li ^a   Ponnam, Suma ^a   Gillham, Patrick ^b   Edwards, Bob ^c   Johnson, Erik ^d  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ANECDOTAL EVIDENCES; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; MEASUREMENT METHODS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; SCHOLARLY RESEARCH; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS; WEB-BASED TECHNOLOGIES;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84893288918     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2492517.2500262     Document Type: Conference Paper

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