A community of curious souls: An analysis of commenting behavior on TED Talks videos

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Tsou, Andrew ^a   Thelwall, Mike ^b   Mongeon, Philippe ^c   Sugimoto, Cassidy R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLVERHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERNET; MALE; ONLINE SYSTEM; VIDEORECORDING; DEMOGRAPHY; RECREATION; SPEECH; TECHNOLOGY;

BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; RECREATION; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SPEECH; TECHNOLOGY; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84899580782     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0093609     Document Type: Article

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