Abstract
This paper examines the linkage patterns of people who posted links on the Facebook “walls” of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain over two years prior to the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. Linkage patterns indicate the destinations to which participants in these social networking dialogues wished to send other participants. We show a strong integration of the Web 2.0 and new media technologies of social networking, online video, and blogs. Outside of video content, users tended to direct others to groups and applications within the Facebook
community, but this homophilous behavior was more common for infrequent posters. Ten internet domains accounted for 90% of all links, and the top ten contained a mixture of news, candidate, and blog sites. We offer a discussion of the Facebook candidate walls as a public sphere for political discourse and introduce some design concepts for visualizing and navigating the walls.
community, but this homophilous behavior was more common for infrequent posters. Ten internet domains accounted for 90% of all links, and the top ten contained a mixture of news, candidate, and blog sites. We offer a discussion of the Facebook candidate walls as a public sphere for political discourse and introduce some design concepts for visualizing and navigating the walls.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Titel | Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research : Social Networks: Making Connections between Citizens, Data and Government |
Redaktører | Soon Ae Chun, Rodrigo Sandoval, Priscilla Regan |
Forlag | Digital Government Society of North America |
Publikationsdato | 2009 |
Sider | 6-15 |
ISBN (Trykt) | 9781605585352 |
Status | Udgivet - 2009 |
Begivenhed | 10th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Social Networks. dg.o 2009 : Social Networks: Making Connections between Citizens, Data & Government - Canceled due to worldwide H1N1 influenza concerns, Puebla, Mexico Varighed: 17 maj 2009 → 20 maj 2009 Konferencens nummer: 10 |
Konference
Konference | 10th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research: Social Networks. dg.o 2009 |
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Nummer | 10 |
Lokation | Canceled due to worldwide H1N1 influenza concerns |
Land/Område | Mexico |
By | Puebla |
Periode | 17/05/2009 → 20/05/2009 |
Navn | ACM International Conference Proceeding Series |
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Vol/bind | 390 |