What’s in Twitter, I know what parties are popular and who you are supporting now!

Social Network Analysis and Mining

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1379-1391

  Boutet, Antoine ^a   Kim, Hyoungshick ^b   Yoneki, Eiko ^c  

^a INRIA   (France)

^b Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Party characteristics; Twitter and politics; User classification

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CLASSIFICATION METHODS; INCREMENTAL METHOD; PARTY CHARACTERISTICS; POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS; POLITICAL ORIENTATION; SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYTICS; TWITTER AND POLITICS; USER CLASSIFICATION;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84922870804     PISSN: 18695450     EISSN: 18695469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13278-013-0120-1     Document Type: Article

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