Characterizing online rumoring behavior using multi-dimensional signatures

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

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 228-241

  Maddock, Jim ^a   Starbird, Kate ^a   Al Hassani, Haneen ^b   Sandoval, Daniel E ^a   Orand, Mania ^a   Mason, Robert M ^a  

^a HCDE ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Crisis Informatics; Information Diffusion; Misinformation; Rumoring; Social computing; Twitter

Indexed keywords

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

CRISIS INFORMATICS; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; MISINFORMATION; RUMORING; SOCIAL COMPUTING; TWITTER;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 84968862688     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2675133.2675280     Document Type: Conference Paper

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