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Marta Cantijoch⁰,
Rachel Gibson¹,
Stephen Ward²

Marta Cantijoch
1. University of Manchester, UK
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Table of contents (11 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xiv

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Introduction: The Importance of Method in the Study of the ‘Political Internet’
1. Introduction: The Importance of Method in the Study of the ‘Political Internet’
  
  Laura Sudulich, Matthew Wall, Rachel Gibson, Marta Cantijoch, Stephen Ward
  
  Pages 1-21
Structure and Influence
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 23-23
  
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2. Political Homophily on the Web
  
  Robert Ackland, Jamsheed Shorish
  
  Pages 25-46
3. Blogosphere Authority Index 2.0: Change and Continuity in the American Political Blogosphere, 2007–2010
  
  David Karpf
  
  Pages 47-71
4. Analysing YouTube Audience Reactions and Discussions: A Network Approach
  
  Mike Thelwall
  
  Pages 72-96
Contents and Interactions
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 97-97
  
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2. Social Data Analytics Tool: A Demonstrative Case Study of Methodology and Software
  
  Abid Hussain, Ravi Vatrapu, Daniel Hardt, Zeshan Ali Jaffari
  
  Pages 99-118
3. Opportunities and Challenges of Analysing Twitter Content: A Comparison of the Occupation Movements in Spain, Greece and the United States
  
  Gema García-Albacete, Yannis Theocharis
  
  Pages 119-153
4. Stuttgart’s Black Thursday on Twitter: Mapping Political Protests with Social Media Data
  
  Andreas Jungherr, Pascal Jürgens
  
  Pages 154-196
5. Analysing ‘Super-Participation’ in Online Third Spaces
  
  Todd Graham, Scott Wright
  
  Pages 197-215
Mixed Methods and Approaches for the Analysis of Web Campaign
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 217-217
  
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2. A Mixed-Methods Approach to Capturing Online Local Level Campaigns Data at the 2010 UK General Election
  
  Rosalynd Southern
  
  Pages 219-237
3. From Websites to Web Presences: Measuring Interactive Features in Candidate-Level Web Campaigns During the 2010 UK General Election
  
  Benjamin J. Lee
  
  Pages 238-255
4. New Directions in Web Analysis: Can Semantic Polling Dissolve the Myth of Two Traditions of Public Opinion Research?
  
  Nick Anstead, Ben O’Loughlin
  
  Pages 256-275
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About this book

As governments, citizens and organizations have moved online there is an increasing need for academic enquiry to adapt to this new context for communication and political action. This adaptation is crucially dependent on researchers being equipped with the necessary methodological tools to extract, analyze and visualize patterns of web activity. This volume profiles the latest techniques being employed by social scientists to collect and interpret data from some of the most popular social media applications, the political parties' own online activist spaces, and the wider system of hyperlinks that structure the inter-connections between these sites. 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.

Editors and Affiliations

University of Manchester, UK

Marta Cantijoch, Rachel Gibson
University of Salford, UK

Stephen Ward

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Robert Ackland, Australian National University, Austrailia Nick Anstead, London School of Economics, UK Gema M. García-Albacete, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain Todd Graham, University of Groningen, Netherlands Daniel Hardt, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Abid Hussain, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Zeshan Ali Jaffari, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Andreas Jungherr, Otto-Friedrich-Universität, Bamberg, Germany Pascal Jürgens, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany David Karpf, George Washington University, USA Benjamin Lee, University of Leicester, UK Ben O'Loughlin, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Jamsheed Shorish, Uberlink Corporation and Shorish Research, Belgium Rosalynd Southern, University of Manchester, UK Laura Sudulich, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium Mike Thelwall, University of Wolverhampton, UK Yannis Theocharis, University of Mannheim, Germany Ravi Vatrapu, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and Norwegian School of Information Technology, Norway Matt Wall, Swansea University, UK Scott Wright, University of Melbourne, Australia

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Analyzing Social Media Data and Web Networks
Editors: Marta Cantijoch, Rachel Gibson, Stephen Ward
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137276773
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political Science Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-27676-6Published: 19 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-44680-3Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-27677-3Published: 25 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 303
Topics: Media Studies, Social Media, Political Science, Multimedia Information Systems, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Social Policy

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

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Introduction: The Importance of Method in the Study of the ‘Political Internet’

Structure and Influence

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Contents and Interactions

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Mixed Methods and Approaches for the Analysis of Web Campaign

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University of Manchester, UK

University of Salford, UK

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