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Introduction : the importance of method in the study of the political internet / Marta Cantijoch, Rachel Gibson, Laura Sudulich, Matthew Wall and Stephen Ward -- Political homophily on the web / Robert Ackland and Jamsheed Shorish -- Blogosphere authority index 2.0 : change and continuity in the American political blogosphere, 2007-2010 / Dave Karpf -- A tool for analysing Youtube audience reactions and discussions / Mike Thelwall -- Social data analytics tool : a demonstrative case study of methodology and software / Ravi Vatrapu, Abid Hussain, Daniel Hardt, and Zeshan Jaffari -- Opportunities and challenges of analysing Twitter content : a comparison of the occupation movements in Spain, Greece and the US / Gema Garcia-Albacete and Yannis Theocharis -- Stuttgart's black Thursday on Twitter : mapping political protests with social media data / Andreas Jungherr and Pascal Jürgens -- Analysing "super-participation" in online third spaces / Todd Graham and Scott Wright -- A mixed-methods approach to capturing online local-level data / Rosalynd Southern -- From web sites to web presences : interactive behaviours in web campaigns during the 2010 UK general election / Benjamin Lee -- New directions in web analysis : semantic polling and the future of opinion surveys / Nick Anstead and Ben O'Loughlin

"This book offers crucial perspectives on the utilization of online social networks in political discourse and how these alterations have affected previous modes of correspondence, highlighting key issues through theoretical foundations and pertinent case studies"--

This article explores two different but complementary theoretical approaches to frame innovation in online media: actor-network theory and community of practice.The principles and key concepts of each are presented and their suitability to the analysis of innovation in journalism is discussed through four newsroom cases.The findings demonstrate that these theories are efficient tools to understand and analyze the actors involved in innovation decisions in the newsroom, the dynamics of the negotiation and learning processes among the journalists and the factors constraining and fostering evolution when innovations are implemented or disregarded in the newsroom.

Familiar laws of physics are applied to study human relations, modelled by their world lines (worldlines) combined with social networks. We focus upon the simplest, basic element of any society: a married couple, stable due to the dynamic balance between attraction and repulsion. By building worldlines (worldsheets), we arrive at a two-level coordinate systems: one describing the behaviour of a string-like binary system (here, a married couple), the other one, external, corresponding to the motion of this couple in the medium, in which the worldline is embedded, sweeping there a string-like sheet or brane. The approach is illustrated by simple examples (semi-quantitative toy models) of worldlines (sheets), open to further extension, perfections and generalisation. Worldlines are combined with social networks. Simple illustrative examples with empirical inputs taken from intuition and (or) observation are appended.

This book offers a new and fresh approach to understanding social movements. It provides interdisciplinary perspectives on social and cultural protest and contentious politics. It considers major theories and concepts, which are presented in an accessible and engaging format. Historical and contemporary case studies and examples from a variety of different countries are provided throughout, including the American civil rights movement, Greenpeace, Pussy Riot, indigenous peoples movements, liberation theology, Occupy, Tea Party, and the Arab Spring. The book presents specific chapters outlining.