Can Tweets Replace Polls? A U.S. Health-Care Reform Case Study

Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 61-86

  Kim, Annice ^a   Murphy, Joe ^a   Richards, Ashley ^a   Hansen, Heather ^a   Powell, Rebecca ^b   Haney, Carol ^c  

^a RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^b Survey Research and Methodology   (United States)

^c 75 West Street ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Kaiser Health Tracking Poll; Sentiment coding; Tweets; U.S. health care reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 85014733285     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118751534.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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