An analysis of interactions within and between extreme right communities in social media

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8329 LNAI, Issue , 2013, Pages 88-107

  O'Callaghan, Derek ^a   Greene, Derek ^a   Conway, Maura ^b   Carthy, Joe ^a   Cunningham, Pad́raig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Community detection; Extreme right; Network analysis; Social media; Topic modelling; Twitter

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DETECTION; EXTREME RIGHT; INTERACTION RELATIONSHIP; LOCAL INTERACTIONS; NETWORK REPRESENTATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS; TWITTER;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84893817955     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-45392-2_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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