A hyperlink and issue network analysis of the United States Senate: A rediscovery of the web as a relational and topical medium

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1598-1611

  Kim, Jang Hyun ^a   Barnett, George A ^b   Park, Han Woo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYPERLINKS; NETWORK ANALYSIS; POLITICAL COMMUNICATION; SCHNEIDER; SOCIAL EMBEDDEDNESS; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; SOCIAL SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 77954931457     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21357     Document Type: Article

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