TY - JOUR AU - Elmer, Greg AU - Ryan, Peter Malachy AU - Devereaux, Zach AU - Langlois, Ganaele AU - Redden, Joanna AU - McKelvey, Fenwick PY - 2007/04/02 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Election bloggers: Methods for determining political influence JF - First Monday JA - FM VL - 12 IS - 4 SE - DO - 10.5210/fm.v12i4.1766 UR - https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1766 SP - AB - This paper discusses early findings and methodological pitfalls of a study of a hyper–mediated election campaign in Canada. Web logs — or “blogs” — serve as the primary object of study. The paper focuses on possible sources of large scale data (aggregated blogger posts) and methods of determining the political influence of bloggers. A series of methodologies are proposed to resolve the over–reliance upon information aggregators and blog search engines provided by Google and Technorati. ER -