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Bruce Etling
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Exploring Russian cyberspace: digitally-mediated collective action and the networked public sphere
This paper summarizes the major findings of a three-year research project to investigate the Internet’s impact on Russian politics, media and society. We employed multiple methods to study online activity: the mapping and study of the structure, communities and content of the blogosphere; an analogous mapping and study of Twitter; content analysis of different media...
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Public discourse in the Russian blogosphere: mapping RuNet politics and mobilization
This paper analyses Russian blogs to discover networks of discussion around politics and public affairs. With funding from the MacArthur Foundation, the Berkman Center is undertaking a two-year research project to investigate the role of the Internet in Russian society. The study will include a number of interrelated areas of inquiry that contribute to and...
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Mapping the Arabic blogosphere: politics, culture and dissent
This report uses a unique methodology that blends link analysis, term frequency analysis, and human coding of individual blogs to investigate the online discussions taking place across the Middle East and North Africa. Internet & Democracy project director Bruce Etling and his team, with Morningside Analytics founder and Berkman affiliate John Kelly, and co-authors Robert...