Divided They Tweet: The Network Structure of Political Microbloggers and Discussion Topics

Proceedings of the 5th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, ICWSM 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 474-477

  Feller, Albert ^a   Kuhnert, Matthias ^a   Sprenger, Timm O ^a   Welpe, Isabell M ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTENT ANALYSIS; NATIONAL ELECTIONS; NETWORK STRUCTURES; POLITICAL DEBATES; POLITICAL PARTIES; USER'S PROFILES;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 85054420653     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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