title: Spread of hoax in Social Media
creator: Situngkir, Hokky
subject: Applied Cognitive Psychology
subject: Complexity Theory
subject: Human Computer Interaction
subject: Statistical Models
subject: Evolutionary Psychology
subject: Pragmatics
subject: Semantics
subject: Social Psychology
description: We discuss the way of hoax spreading as gossip and rumor throughout the social media, i.e.: Twitter, by observing an empirical case in Indonesia. We discuss the spreading factor of the gossip in the social media and see the epidemiology of the propagation hoax before and after the hoax being clarified in the conventional mass media. The discussions brought us to the open enrchiment analysis of the sociology of gossip and rumors within the online services like Twitter for future observation of human behavior. 
date: 2011-05-01
type: Departmental Technical Report
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/7336/1/gossip.pdf
identifier:   Situngkir, Hokky  (2011) Spread of hoax in Social Media.  [Departmental Technical Report]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/7336/