Exploring the relationships between media and political parties through web hyperlink analysis: The case of Spain

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 967-976

  Romero Frías, Esteban ^a   Vaughan, Liwen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

mass media; Spain; web mining

Indexed keywords

HYPERLINKS; LINK ANALYSIS; MASS MEDIA; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; POLITICAL ORIENTATION; POLITICAL PARTIES; SPAIN; WEB MINING; WEB PRESENCE;

HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS;

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

EID: 84860627843     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.22625     Document Type: Article

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