A measure of polarization on social media NetworksBased on community boundaries

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 215-224

  Calais Guerra, Pedro H ^a   Meira Jr , Wagner ^a   Cardie, Claire ^b   Kleinberg, Robert ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b School of Operations Research and Information Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DIRECT MEASURES; HIGH-DEGREE NODES; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; ONLINE MEDIA; OPINION ANALYSIS; POLITICAL DEBATES; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 84900440192     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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