Alternative narratives of crisis events: Communities and social botnets engaged on social media

CSCW 2017 - Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 263-266

  Nied, A Conrad ^a   Stewart, Leo ^a   Spiro, Emma ^a   Starbird, Kate ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Alternative Narratives; Communities; Rumoring; Social Botnets; Twitter

Indexed keywords

BOTNET; COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; ECOSYSTEMS; GROUPWARE; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

ALTERNATIVE NARRATIVES; BOTNETS; COMMON TRAITS; COMMUNITY COLLEGE; CRISIS EVENTS; EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS; RUMORING; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85016028291     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/3022198.3026307     Document Type: Conference Paper

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