How do social scientists use link data from search engines to understand Internet-based political and electoral communication?

Quality and Quantity

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 679-693

  Park, Han Woo ^a  

^a Yeungnam University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Link analysis; Online research method; Political communication; Search engine; Social science method

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855691480     PISSN: 00335177     EISSN: 15737845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11135-010-9421-x     Document Type: Article

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