The bottom-up formation and maintenance of a Twitter community analysis of the #FreeJahar Twitter community

Industrial Management and Data Systems

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 612-624

  Ch'ng, Eugene ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM NINGBO CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Big data; Longitudinal network; Multimodal network; Online communities; Social network analysis; Twitter

Indexed keywords

MODAL ANALYSIS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; MULTIMODAL NETWORK; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL MEDIA SERVICES; SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH; TWITTER; USER-GENERATED CONTENT;

BIG DATA;

EID: 84929311609     PISSN: 02635577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IMDS-11-2014-0332     Document Type: Article

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