Footprints of fascination: Digital traces of public engagement with particle physics on CERN's social media platforms

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Kahle, Kate ^a   Sharon, Aviv J ^b   Baram Tsabari, Ayelet ^b  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; IMAGERY; PHYSICIAN; PHYSICS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SOCIAL MEDIA; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; PSYCHOLOGY; TIME FACTOR;

COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE; HUMANS; PHYSICS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84971596903     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156409     Document Type: Article

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