New directions in web analysis: Can semantic polling dissolve the myth of two traditions of public opinion research?

Analyzing Social Media Data and Web Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 256-275

  Anstead, Nick ^a   O'Loughlin, Ben ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTIC WEB; SEMANTICS;

PUBLIC OPINIONS; WEB ANALYSIS;

SOCIAL ASPECTS;

EID: 84998882042     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9781137276773     Document Type: Chapter

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