Mapping the Political Twitterverse: Candidates and Their Followers in the Midterms

Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 510-513

  Hanna, Alexander ^a   Sayre, Ben ^a   Bode, Leticia ^a   Yang, JungHwan ^a   Shah, Dhavan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GOVERNORS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

DATA SET; HASHTAGS; INFORMATION REQUEST; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; NEW MEDIA; POLITICAL ACTIONS; RANDOM SAMPLE; US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES; US SENATE; VISUAL MAP;

MAPPING;

EID: 85015312151     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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