Cultural dimensions in Twitter: Time, individualism and power

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 195-204

  Garcia Gavilanes, Ruth ^a   Quercia, Daniele ^a   Jaimes, Alejandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS;

BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS; CULTURAL DIMENSIONS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTS; INCOME INEQUALITY; LOW PENETRATION RATES; NATIONAL CULTURES; STRONG CORRELATION; TEMPORAL PREDICTABILITY;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84900386124     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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