Tweet, but verify: epistemic study of information verification on Twitter

Social Network Analysis and Mining

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-12

  Zubiaga, Arkaitz ^a   Ji, Heng ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISASTER PREVENTION; DISASTERS; HURRICANES;

BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS; CURRENT EVENTS; INFORMATION VERIFICATIONS; NATURAL DISASTERS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84945117606     PISSN: 18695450     EISSN: 18695469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13278-014-0163-y     Document Type: Article

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