Measuring the Influence of Mainstream Media on Twitter Users

Abstract

This thesis is based on a research project that has been conducted at Clark AtlantaUniversity (CAU) under the supervision of Professors Roy George and Peter Molnar. Theaim of the project is to construct a framework for measuring the influence of mass mediaon Twitter users. Media influence or media effects are used in media studies, psychology,communication theory and sociology to refer to the theories about the ways in whichmass media and media culture affect how their audiences think and behave.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2014
Accession Number
AD1000386

Entities

People

  • Omar Eltayeby

Organizations

  • Research Triangle Park

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Languages
  • Data Mining
  • Databases
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Information Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Network Science
  • Online Communications
  • Ontologies
  • Social Media
  • Social Networking Services
  • Social Networks
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Supervised Machine Learning

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Research Science/Academic Research