E-cigarette surveillance with social media data: Social bots, emerging topics, and trends

JMIR Public Health and Surveillance

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Allem, Jon Patrick ^a   Ferrara, Emilio ^b   Uppu, Sree Priyanka ^c   Cruz, Tess Boley ^a   Unger, Jennifer B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

Electronic cigarettes; Electronic nicotine delivery system; Infoveillance; Social bots; Social media; Twitter; Vaping

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047742333     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23692960     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/publichealth.8641     Document Type: Article

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