The creation of the climategate hype in blogs and newspapers: Mixed methods approach

Internet Research

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 589-609

  Hellsten, Iina ^a   Vasileiadou, Eleftheria ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ARIMA modelling; Blog analysis; Climategate; Hype; Newspaper analysis; Semantic co word networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937570499     PISSN: 10662243     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/IntR-05-2014-0130     Document Type: Article

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