On understanding the divergence of online social group discussion

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 396-405

  Purohit, Hemant ^a   Ruan, Yiye ^b   Fuhry, David ^b   Parthasarathy, Srinivasan ^b   Sheth, Amit ^a  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISASTERS;

AREA UNDER THE CURVES; DISASTER RESPONSE; GROUP DISCUSSIONS; NATURAL DISASTERS; ONLINE DISCUSSIONS; PRECISION AND RECALL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84909957896     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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