The age of social sensing

Dong Wang; Boleslaw K. Szymanski; Tarek Abdelzaher; Heng Ji; Lance Kaplan

doi:10.1109/MC.2018.2890173

The age of social sensing

Dong Wang, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Tarek Abdelzaher, Heng Ji, Lance Kaplan

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Online social media have democratized the broadcasting of information, encouraging users to view the world through the lens of social networks. The exploitation of this lens, termed social sensing, presents challenges for researchers at the intersection of computer science and the social sciences.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	36-45
Number of pages	10
Volume	52
No	1
Specialist publication	Computer
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2018.2890173
State	Published - Jan 2019

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