Mapping the online communication patterns of political conversations

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 414, Issue , 2014, Pages 403-413

  Borondo, J ^a   Morales, A J ^a   Benito, R M ^a   Losada, J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Languages; Online communication patterns; Political conversations; Political elections; Social network analysis; Twitter

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC VOTING; QUERY LANGUAGES;

COMMUNICATION PATTERN; HOMOGENEOUS NETWORK; ON-LINE COMMUNICATION; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; POLITICAL CONVERSATIONS; POLITICAL ELECTIONS; SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYSIS; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84906264119     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2014.06.089     Document Type: Article

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