A hyperlink study of greek political blogs communication patterns

Internet Issues: Blogging, the Digital Divide and Digital Libraries

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 27-52

  Zafiropoulos, Kostas ^a   Vrana, Vasiliki ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SERRES   (Greece)

Author keywords

Blog authority; Blogs; Cluster analysis; Connectivity; Core groups; Focal points; Greece; Links distribution; Multidimensional scaling; Partisanship; Patterns; Polarization; Political blogs; Skewness; Social networking

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957314473     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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