Making Sense of Microblogs

Making Sense of Microblogs #SanDiegoFire #iran09 #sigir2010 #toRead #informationScience Miles Efron Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign mefron@illinois.edu http://people.lis.illinois.edu/~mefron

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Making Sense of Microblogs

Making Sense of Microblogs

Presentation Transcript

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SENSE-MAKING .

of making sense...

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