"Narco" emotions: Affect and desensitization in social media during the Mexican Drug War

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 3563-3572

  De Choudhury, Munmun ^a   Monroy Hernández, Andrés ^a   Mark, Gloria ^b  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^b Ringgold Standard Institution Informatics   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Crisis informatics; Desensitization; Social media

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ENGINEERING;

AFFECT; AFFECTIVE RESPONSE; CRISIS INFORMATICS; DESENSITIZATION; EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIONS; INFORMATION SHARING; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84900420076     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556288.2557197     Document Type: Conference Paper

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