edited by Rachel Gibson, University of Manchester, UK ; Marta Cantijoch, University of Manchester, UK ; Stephen Ward, University of Salford, UK.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2014
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
(xiv, 287 pages) : illustrations
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
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.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
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.
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
Analyzing social media data and web networks
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Internet -- Evaluation.
Online social networks -- Political aspects.
Social media -- Political aspects.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
HM742
Book number
.
E358
2014
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
edited by Rachel Gibson, University of Manchester, UK ; Marta Cantijoch, University of Manchester, UK ; Stephen Ward, University of Salford, UK.