Raising and rising voices in social media: A novel methodological approach in studying cyber-collective movements

Business and Information Systems Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 113-126

  Agarwal, Nitin ^a   Lim, Merlyna ^b   Wigand, Rolf ^c  

^a University of Arkansas at Little Rock ^*  (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS AT LITTLE ROCK   (United States)

Author keywords

Al Huwaider; Blogosphere; Collective action; Community; Female bloggers; Influence; Issue diffusion; Muslim; Opinion mining; Social Media; Social network analysis; Transnational

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027927350     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18670202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12599-012-0210-z     Document Type: Article

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