Quantifying the effect of sentiment on information diffusion in social media

PeerJ Computer Science

Volumn 2015, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Ferrara, Emilio ^a,b   Yang, Zeyao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational social science; Information diffusion; Sentiment analysis; Social media; Social networks

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICS; SENTIMENT ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; INFORMATION PRODUCTION; NEGATIVE SENTIMENTS; SOCIAL ECOSYSTEMS; SOCIAL MEDIA; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; UNEXPECTED EVENTS;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85015567959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23765992     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.26     Document Type: Article

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