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  • Tag: information seeking

    • What does it mean to win a debate anyway?: Media Coverage of the Leaders’ Debates vs. Google Search Trends

      29 April 2015

      Author:

      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. ...
      Read More What does it mean to win a debate anyway?: Media Coverage of the Leaders’ Debates vs. Google Search Trends

    • The Ethics of Wikipedia Research

      25 February 2015

      Author:

      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 ...
      Read More The Ethics of Wikipedia Research

    • Subjectivity and Data Collection in a “Big Data” Project

      6 February 2015

      Author:

      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) ...
      Read More Subjectivity and Data Collection in a “Big Data” Project

    • Creating transnational political links with euandi and Facebook

      30 April 2014

      Author:

      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 ...
      Read More Creating transnational political links with euandi and Facebook

    • Media effect or media replacement?

      22 April 2014

      Author:

      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) ...
      Read More Media effect or media replacement?

    • Outliers on the electoral information cycle

      11 April 2014

      Author:

      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 ...
      Read More Outliers on the electoral information cycle

    • When do people start getting interested in elections? The electoral information cycle

      8 April 2014

      Author:

      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 ...
      Read More When do people start getting interested in elections? The electoral information cycle

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