Does offline political segregation affect the filter bubble? An empirical analysis of information diversity for Dutch and Turkish Twitter users

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 41, Issue , 2014, Pages 405-415

  Bozdag, Engin ^a   Gao, Qi ^a   Houben, Geert Jan ^a   Warnier, Martijn ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Diversity; Netherlands; Polarization; Politics; Turkey; Twitter

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX NETWORKS; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; POLARIZATION; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

DIVERSITY; NETHERLANDS; POLITICS; TURKEY; TWITTER;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85027927425     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.05.028     Document Type: Article

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