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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 419-428

  Munson, Sean A ^a   Lee, Stephanie Y ^a   Resnick, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TOOLS;

CONTROL GROUPS; FIELD DEPLOYMENT; INFORMATION SOURCES; POLITICAL NEWS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84900426432     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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