People as sensors: Mass media and local temperature influence climate change discussion on Twitter

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 30, Issue , 2015, Pages 92-100

  Kirilenko, Andrei P ^a   Molodtsova, Tatiana ^a   Stepchenkova, Svetlana O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Mass media; Social media; Temperature; Twitter

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLOBAL WARMING; MASS MEDIA; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; URBAN AREA; WORLD WIDE WEB;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84919608820     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.11.003     Document Type: Article

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