Mapping the anti-vaccination movement on Facebook

Information Communication and Society

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2019, Pages 1310-1327

  Smith, Naomi ^a   Graham, Tim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALLARAT   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anti vaccination; social media; social network analysis; social network sites; topic modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 85039044264     PISSN: 1369118X     EISSN: 14684462     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2017.1418406     Document Type: Article

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