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Women Empowerment Through Social Media: Insights from India

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ICT Analysis and Applications

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In recent times, social media has been used by people to participate in a particular event and has resulted in the generation of a large amount of data online. These data can be helpful for the decision-maker in promoting and devising necessary policies at the right time. The purpose of this paper is to understand the peoples’ sentiments and emotions about a recent social movement. Based on the result and analysis, the possible inferences have been presented.

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  1. Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, India

    Rajesh R. Pai

  2. National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India

    Sreejith Alathur

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  2. Techno India College of Engineering, Kolkata, India

    Nilanjan Dey

  3. Ahmedabad, India

    Amit Joshi

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Pai, R.R., Alathur, S. (2020). Women Empowerment Through Social Media: Insights from India. In: Fong, S., Dey, N., Joshi, A. (eds) ICT Analysis and Applications. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 93. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0630-7_38

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