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This panel seeks to bring together papers that confront core methodological issues faced by researchers analyzing political actors use of web 2.0 technologies. In particular, we focus on papers that outline and/or apply new web-based methodologies that enable the systematic collection and analysis of data from social networking sites, blogs, Twitter, and YouTube, and the search engine API’s such as that of Google and Yahoo. The needs of web researchers are advancing rapidly as new types of social media proliferate. As ever methodologies for data capture and analysis run some way behind although new tools are emerging to provide a means for researchers to more accurately mine and map individual and organisational uses of the Web (e.g. Tubemogul, the Blog Analysis Toolkit (BAT), Issuecrawler.net). This panel will seek to highlight the range of new methods that are emerging to collect and analyse the quantitative and qualitative data web 2.0 or social media and assess their strengths and weaknesses and utility for social science researchers. In particular papers are encouraged that seek to provide a ‘state of the art’ review of the current methods available for data extraction and analysis from API’s such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as those that have applied these new cutting methods to substantive research questions and have empirical results to report. Papers using approaches that promote cross-national research in the field and can be deployed in a range of polities are particularly welcome.
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Diffusion of Sentiments Across Blogosphere: The Case of Georgia | View Paper Details |
| A Mixed-Methods Approach to Capturing Online Local-Level Campaigns Data | View Paper Details |
| One Tweet at a Time: Mapping Political Campaigns through Social Media Data | View Paper Details |
| Super Participation in Online "Third Spaces": New Agenda, New Method | View Paper Details |
| A 140 Characters Campaign. Twitter Usage in the 2011 Irish General Election | View Paper Details |
| Semantic Polling and the 2010 UK General Election | View Paper Details |
| Live Research: Twittering an Election Debate | View Paper Details |
| Mining Facebook Walls of Greek Parties for Discovering Political Communication Patterns | View Paper Details |