Tweeting the terror: modelling the social media reaction to the Woolwich terrorist attack

Social Network Analysis and Mining

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-14

  Burnap, Pete ^a   Williams, Matthew L ^a   Sloan, Luke ^a   Rana, Omer ^a   Housley, William ^a   Edwards, Adam ^a   Knight, Vincent ^a   Procter, Rob ^b   Voss, Alex ^c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Information flows; Information propagation; Information spreading; Opinion mining; Predictive models; Sentiment analysis; Social media; Social network analysis; Twitter

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TERRORISM; WEBSITES;

INFORMATION FLOWS; INFORMATION PROPAGATION; INFORMATION SPREADING; OPINION MINING; PREDICTIVE MODELS; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84906264962     PISSN: 18695450     EISSN: 18695469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13278-014-0206-4     Document Type: Article

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