Analysing how people orient to and spread rumours in social media by looking at conversational threads

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Zubiaga, Arkaitz ^a   Liakata, Maria ^a   Procter, Rob ^a   Wong Sak Hoi, Geraldine ^b   Tolmie, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b Swissinfoch   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; LIFE CYCLE; MACHINE LEARNING; ORGANIZATION; PUBLISHING; SOCIAL MEDIA; DENIAL; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

COMMUNICATION; DENIAL (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84961167468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150989     Document Type: Article

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