Exploring twitter to analyze the public's reaction patterns to recently reported homicides in London

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Kounadi, Ourania ^a   Lampoltshammer, Thomas J ^a,b   Groff, Elizabeth ^c   Sitko, Izabela ^a   Leitner, Michael ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b SALZBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CRIME VICTIM; DATA PROCESSING; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; LEGAL EVIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; ONLINE SYSTEM; PERCEPTION; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLICATION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPACE AND SPACE RELATED PHENOMENA; TIME OF DEATH; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT; CRIME; ENGLAND; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR;

CRIME; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; LONDON; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84961287832     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121848     Document Type: Article

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