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Analyzing Civil Unrest through Social Media

Ting Hua, Chang-Tien Lu, Naren Ramakrishnan, Feng Chen, Jaime Arredondo, David Mares, Kristen Summers

Abstract

Mining and analyzing data from social networks such as Twitter can reveal new insights into the causes of civil disturbances, including trigger events and the role of political entrepreneurs and organizations in galvanizing public opinion

Publication Details

Date of publication: November 30, 2013

Journal: IEEE Computer

Page number(s): 80--84

Volume: 46

Issue Number: 12