Online actions with offline impact: How online social networks influence online and offline user behavior

WSDM 2017 - Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 537-546

  Althoff, Tim ^a   Jindal, Pranav ^a   Leskovec, Jure ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DATA MINING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MOTIVATION; SOCIAL SCIENCES COMPUTING; WEBSITES;

COMPUTING APPLICATIONS; EDGE FORMATION; NATURAL EXPERIMENT; NETWORK CONNECTION; ON-LINE SOCIAL NETWORKS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; SOCIAL CONNECTION; SOCIAL INFLUENCE;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85013683522     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/3018661.3018672     Document Type: Conference Paper

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