Vaporous marketing: Uncovering pervasive electronic cigarette advertisements on twitter

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Clark, Eric M ^a,b,c   Jones, Chris A ^c,d   Williams, Jake Ryland ^a,b,e   Kurti, Allison N ^c   Norotsky, Mitchell Craig ^c   Danforth, Christopher M ^a,b   Dodds, Peter Sheridan ^a,b  

^a University of Vermont ^*  (United States)

^b Computational Story Lab ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERTISING; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE; EMOTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HEDONOMETRICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACHINE LEARNING; PROTECTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL MARKETING; SOCIAL MEDIA; TWITTER; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER ADVERTIZING; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; MARKETING; SMOKING CESSATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; COMMERCE; DIRECT-TO-CONSUMER ADVERTISING; ELECTRONIC CIGARETTES; HUMANS; MARKETING; SMOKING CESSATION; SOCIAL MEDIA;

EID: 84978763023     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157304     Document Type: Article

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