Multilingual use of Twitter: Social networks at the language frontier

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 424-432

  Eleta, Irene ^a   Golbeck, Jennifer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Language choice; Multilingualism; Social media; Social network analysis; Twitter

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MODELING LANGUAGES;

GLOBAL CONNECTIVITY; INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE CHOICE; MULTILINGUALISM; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS; TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84922368237     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.05.005     Document Type: Article

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