A Hands-On Guide to Conducting Psychological Research on Twitter

Social Psychological and Personality Science

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 396-412

  Murphy, Sean C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

language analysis; methods; social networks; Twitter

Indexed keywords

EID: 85021738657     PISSN: 19485506     EISSN: 19485514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1948550617697178     Document Type: Article

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