Social Media as Passive Polling: Prospects for Development & Disaster Response

From iRevolution Thu Feb 21 2013, 08:52:10

My Harvard/MIT colleague Todd Mostak wrote his award-winning Master's Thesis on "Social Media as Passive Polling: Using Twitter and Online Forums to Map Islamism in Egypt." For this research, Todd evaluated the "potential of Twitter as a source of time-stamped, geocoded public opinion data ... Continue reading →

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