Content and network dynamics behind Egyptian political polarization on twitter

CSCW 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 700-711

  Borge Holthoefer, Javier ^a   Magdy, Walid ^a   Darwish, Kareem ^a   Weber, Ingmar ^a  

^a QATAR COMPUTING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

Egypt; mobilization; opinion switch; polarization; Twitter

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DYNAMICS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; POLARIZATION; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

CHANGES IN VOLUME; CONTENT ANALYSIS; EGYPT; EMPIRICAL VALIDATION; INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY; MOBILIZATION; SOCIOLOGICAL MODELS; TWITTER;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 84968763926     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675163     Document Type: Conference Paper

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