The tweet goes on: Interconnection of Twitter opinion leadership, network size, and civic engagement

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• 作者：Chang Sup Park^a ; ^{parkcomm@gmail.com} ; Barbara K. Kaye^b ; ^bkk@utk.edu
• 关键词：Twitter ; Opinion leadership ; Civic engagement ; Network size
• 刊名：Computers in Human Behavior
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：April 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：69
• 期：Complete
• 页码：174-180
• 全文大小：290 K
• 卷排序：69

文摘

Twitter opinion leadership is rarely predicted by socio-demographics. Twitter opinion leadership is more strongly associated with online network size than offline network size. Twitter opinion leadership is significantly and positively associated with online civic participation. Twitter opinion leaders are categorized as two types – frequent tweet posters and frequent retweeters.