More Voices Than Ever? Quantifying Media Bias in Networks

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 193-200

  Lin, Yu Ru ^a,c   Bagrow, James P ^b,c   Lazer, David ^a,b,c  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

COVERAGE TESTING; DYNAMIC NATURE; EMPIRICAL MEASURE; IN NETWORKS; MAINSTREAM MEDIA; NEWS MEDIA; NULL MODEL; POLITICAL PARTIES; SOCIAL MEDIA; US CONGRESS;

BLOGS;

EID: 85020968629     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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