The Charlie Hebdo Attacks on Twitter: A Comparative Analysis of a Political Controversy in English and French

In this article, we propose an original method combining large-scale network and lexicometric analysis to link identifiable communities of Twitter users with the main discursive themes they used in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris, France in 2015. We used this method to compare tw...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nikos Smyrnaios, Pierre Ratinaud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-02-01
Series:Social Media + Society
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305117693647