User migration in online social networks: A case study on Reddit during a period of community unrest

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web and Social Media, ICWSM 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 279-288

  Newell, Edward ^a   Jurgens, David ^b   Saleem, Haji Mohammad ^a   Vala, Hardik ^a   Sassine, Jad ^a   Armstrong, Caitrin ^a   Ruths, Derek ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; MOTIVATION;

COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; CRITICAL MASS; LONG TAIL; MASS MIGRATION; MIGRATION PATTERNS; MULTIPLE PLATFORMS; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; USER BEHAVIORS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84979518797     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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