Tag: information seeking
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What does it mean to win a debate anyway?: Media Coverage of the Leaders’ Debates vs. Google Search Trends
29 April 2015
Authors: Eve Ahearn
Following the April 2nd Leaders’ Debate the media portrayed Nicola Sturgeon, the leader of the Scottish National Party, as the victor of the night, or at least a victor. ...
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The Ethics of Wikipedia Research
25 February 2015
Authors: Eve Ahearn
The election results on this Wikipedia page are wrong, I can tell. As we collect data for the Social Election Prediction Project, I am reviewing many a Wikipedia political party ...
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Subjectivity and Data Collection in a “Big Data” Project
6 February 2015
Authors: Eve Ahearn
“There remains a mistaken belief that qualitative researchers are in the business of interpreting stories and quantitative researchers are in the business of producing facts.” (boyd & Crawford, 2012) ...
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Creating transnational political links with euandi and Facebook
30 April 2014
Authors: Jonathan Bright
CAPTION Just wanted to put up a quick plug for the euandi voting advice application [VAA] which has recently been launched by the European University Institute. I was one of the 100 ...
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Media effect or media replacement?
22 April 2014
Authors: Taha Yasseri
by Jonathan Bright and Taha Yasseri. Online political information seeking, at least in the data we’ve gathered so far, happens in short, concentrated bursts. When we began the project, I (JB) ...
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Outliers on the electoral information cycle
11 April 2014
Authors: Taha Yasseri
by Jonathan Bright and Taha Yasseri. In the last post we looked at patterns of access to the Wikipedia article on the European Parliament election, 2009 identified an electoral information cycle which consists of a build ...
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When do people start getting interested in elections? The electoral information cycle
8 April 2014
Authors: Jonathan Bright
by Jonathan Bright and Taha Yasseri. When do people start getting interested in elections, and how does this differ in different countries? In this post we try to get a handle ...
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