Culture, networks, twitter and foursquare: Testing a model of cultural conversion with social media data

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2015

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 626-629

  Joseph, Kenneth ^a   Carley, Kathleen ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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