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Election Bloggers: Methods for Determining Political Influence
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Peter Malachy Ryan, Zach Devereaux, Ganaele Langlois, Joanna Redden, Fenwick McKelvey, Greg ElmerFirst Monday
2007
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This paper discusses early findings and methodological pitfalls of a study of a hyper–mediated election campaign in Canada. Web logs — or “blogs” — serve as the primary object of study. The paper focuses on possible sources of large scale data (aggregated blogger posts) and methods of determining the political influence of bloggers. A series of methodologies are proposed to resolve the over–reliance upon information aggregators and blog search engines provided by Google and Technorati.
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