My name is Khan: The use of twitter in the campaign for 2013 Pakistan general election

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 2242-2251

  Ahmed, Saifuddin ^a   Skoric, Marko M ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STATISTICS; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

CONTENT ANALYSIS; GENERAL ELECTIONS; PAKISTAN; POLITICAL HISTORY; POLITICAL PARTIES; USAGE PATTERNS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84902274979     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2014.282     Document Type: Conference Paper

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