Detecting themes of public concern: A text mining analysis of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Ebola live Twitter chat

American Journal of Infection Control

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1109-1111

  Lazard, Allison J ^a,b   Scheinfeld, Emily ^a,c   Bernhardt, Jay M ^a,d   Wilcox, Gary B ^a,c   Suran, Melissa ^a,c  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis communication; Internet; Social media; Tweet

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNICATION SOFTWARE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; TEXT MESSAGING; WEB BROWSER; DATA MINING; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC OPINION; TRANSMISSION; UNITED STATES;

CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); DATA MINING; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; PUBLIC OPINION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84942981452     PISSN: 01966553     EISSN: 15273296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2015.05.025     Document Type: Article

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