The role of social media in the discussion of controversial topics

Proceedings - SocialCom/PASSAT/BigData/EconCom/BioMedCom 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 236-243

  Smith, Laura M ^a   Zhu, Linhong ^a   Lerman, Kristina ^a   Kozareva, Zornitsa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Political opinions; Sentiment analysis; Twitter

Indexed keywords

BLOGGING; CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS; POLITICAL OPINIONS; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER; USER BEHAVIORS;

DATA MINING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84893572328     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SocialCom.2013.41     Document Type: Conference Paper

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