Analyzing Social Media Data and Web Networks

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-349-44680-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 303 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3843 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cantijoch, M.

Ward, S.

Gibson, R.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landespolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Importance of Method in the Study of the Political Internet'; Marta Cantijoch, Rachel Gibson, Laura Sudulich, Matthew Wall and Stephen Ward PART I: STRUCTURE AND INFLUENCE 1. Political Homophily on the Web; Robert Ackland and Jamsheed Shorish 2. Blogosphere Authority Index 2.0: Change and Continuity in the American Political Blogosphere, 2007-2010; Dave Karpf 3. A Tool for Analysing Youtube Audience Reactions and Discussions; Mike Thelwall PART II: CONTENTS AND INTERACTIONS 4. Social Data Analytics Tool: A Demonstrative Case Study of Methodology and Software; Ravi Vatrapu, Abid Hussain, Daniel Hardt, and Zeshan Jaffari 5. 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 6. Stuttgart's Black Thursday on Twitter: Mapping Political Protests with Social Media Data; Andreas Jungherr and Pascal Jurgens 7. Analysing 'Super-participation' in Online Third Spaces; Todd Graham and Scott Wright PART III: MIXED METHODS AND APPROACHES FOR ANALYSIS OF WEB CAMPAIGNS 8. A Mixed-Methods Approach to Capturing Online Local-Level Data; Rosalynd Southern. 9. 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

Über Autor(innen)

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