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Mapping the Political Blogosphere and the 2004 U.S. Election |
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Author(s):
Lada Adamic, Natalie Glance |
Institution:
HP Labs, Intelliseek Applied Research Center (Blogpulse.com) |
Year:
2005 |
URL:
http://www.blogpulse.com/papers/2005/AdamicGlanceBlogWWW.pdf |
Project Description:
In this paper, the authors studied the linking patterns and discussion topics of political bloggers. The goal was to measure the degree of interaction between liberal and conservative blogs, and to uncover any differences in the structure of the two communities. Specifically, they analyzed the posts of 40 "A-list" blogs over the period of two months preceding the U.S. Presidential Election of 2004, to study how often they referred to one another and to quantify the overlap in the topics they discussed, both within the liberal and conservative communities, and also across communities.
They also studied a single day snapshot of over 1,000 political blogs. This snapshot captured blogrolls (the list of links to other blogs frequently found in sidebars), and presents a more static picture of a broader blogosphere. Most significantly, the authors found differences in the behavior of liberal and conservative blogs, with conservative blogs linking to each other more frequently and in a denser pattern.
The image shown, portraits the community structure of the analyzed political blogs (expanded set), shown using utilizing a GEM layout in the GUESS visualization and analysis tool. The colors reflect political orientation, red for conservative, and blue for liberal. Orange links go from liberal to conservative, and purple ones from conservative to liberal. The size of each blog reflects the number of other blogs that link to it.
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