edited by Rachel Gibson, University of Manchester, UK ; Marta Cantijoch, University of Manchester, UK ; Stephen Ward, University of Salford, UK.
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Palgrave Macmillan
2014
(xiv, 287 pages) : illustrations
Introduction : the importance of method in the study of the political internet / Marta Cantijoch, Rachel Gibson, Laura Sudulich, Matthew Wall and Stephen Ward --;Political homophily on the web / Robert Ackland and Jamsheed Shorish --;Blogosphere authority index 2.0 : change and continuity in the American political blogosphere, 2007-2010 / Dave Karpf --;A tool for analysing Youtube audience reactions and discussions / Mike Thelwall --;Social data analytics tool : a demonstrative case study of methodology and software / Ravi Vatrapu, Abid Hussain, Daniel Hardt, and Zeshan Jaffari --;Opportunities and challenges of analysing Twitter content : a comparison of the occupation movements in Spain, Greece and the US / Gema Garcia-Albacete and Yannis Theocharis --;Stuttgart's black Thursday on Twitter : mapping political protests with social media data / Andreas Jungherr and Pascal Jürgens --;Analysing "super-participation" in online third spaces / Todd Graham and Scott Wright --;A mixed-methods approach to capturing online local-level data / Rosalynd Southern --;From web sites to web presences : interactive behaviours in web campaigns during the 2010 UK general election / Benjamin Lee --;New directions in web analysis : semantic polling and the future of opinion surveys / Nick Anstead and Ben O'Loughlin.
Including contributions from a range of academic disciplines including Political Science, Media and Communication Studies, Economics, and Computer Science, this study showcases a new methodological approach that has been expressly designed to capture and analyze web data in the process of investigating substantive questions.
Analyzing social media data and web networks
Internet -- Evaluation.
Online social networks -- Political aspects.
Social media -- Political aspects.
HM742
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E358
2014
edited by Rachel Gibson, University of Manchester, UK ; Marta Cantijoch, University of Manchester, UK ; Stephen Ward, University of Salford, UK.