El analisis de las redes sociales (ARS) como metodologia para el estudio del ciberespacio islamico espanol
In: Revista española de ciencia política, Heft 30, S. 121-131
ISSN: 1575-6548
This article describes some of the results of the research project on cyberislam and Islamic public sphere online in Spain, which is part of the R & D project: CS02011-29438-C05-01,under the title: "The Arab-Islamic world on the move: Migration, reforms, elections and their impact in Spain". This first approach explores the possibilities of social network analysis (SNA) in the study of online Islamic communities in Spain. This methodology has allowed us to obtain data from 214 Spanish Islamic cyberenvironments, which structure the network of the Islamic public sphere online in 2010. It has been possible to measure the size of the Spanish Islamic cyberspace, to visualize its structure, to establish the general characteristics of the Spanish Islamic public sphere online and identify the most influential groups by analyzing these data. Adapted from the source document.