Twitter: a content analysis of personal information

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 843-857

  Humphreys, Lee ^a   Gill, Phillipa ^b,d   Krishnamurthy, Balachander ^c  

^a Department of Communication Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c ATT Lab Research   (United States)

^d Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

civil inattention; location; privacy; public order; social media; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901187715     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2013.848917     Document Type: Article

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