Bridging the virtual and real: The relationship between web content, linkage, and geographical proximity of social movements

Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 65, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2210-2222

  Benjamin, Victor ^a   Chen, Hsinchun ^a   Zimbra, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

collaboration; human computer interaction; knowledge discovery

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA MINING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AUTOMATED DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS; COLLABORATION; GEOGRAPHICAL PROXIMITY; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS; SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE; VIRTUAL COMMUNITY; VIRTUAL PRESENCE; VIRTUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 84938709370     PISSN: 23301635     EISSN: 23301643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.23113     Document Type: Article

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