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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Political Blogs"”.
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INTERMEDIA AGENDA-SETTING RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN POLITICAL BLOGS AND LEGACY NEWS MEDIA: A STUDY OF THE `OBAMA-IS-A-MUSLIM' RUMOR
… presidential election suggest that influential political blogs are playing a major role in setting the agenda of the legacy media. The power of the political blogosphere is forcing media practitioners, communication scholars and political theorists to re-conceptualize how issues arrive on the …
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The boys on the blogs : intermedia agenda setting in the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign
… determine the agenda-setting role of prominent political bloggers in relation to the mainstream news media and the candidates. An online survey of newspaper and wire service reporters who covered the campaign (N = 80) found that reporters who wrote about the campaign on a regular basis and who …
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Dramatism, Feminine Style and Women's Weblogs: Women Speaking in the E-Public
… emerged as a legitimate influence on political participation and strategy. Weblogs (blogs) played a pivotal role in the Internet's unprecedented sway. This research combined Burke's (1969) dramatism with Campbell's (1989) feminine style to describe and critique three women's political …
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Learning to Do Democracy: Deliberative Capacity in Political Blogging Communities
This thesis demonstrates that participants in Political Blogging Communities increase their deliberative capacity over time, potentially enabling them to participate in democratic societies. The study unifies perspectives on the meaning of blogs in American politics. It presents a unique …
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Statistical analysis of networks with community structure and bootstrap methods for big data
… gained through this methodology by analyzing the political blogs network and the British MP network, as well as in simulation studies. Bootstrap methods for big data: Resampling methods provide a powerful method of evaluating the precision of a wide variety of statistical inference methods. The …