Identifying Representative Textual Sources in Blog Networks

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<p>We apply methods from social network analysis and visualization to facilitate a study of the Irish blogosphere from a cultural studies perspective. We focus on solving the practical issues that arise when the goal is to perform textual analysis of the corpus produced by a network of bloggers. Previous studies into blogging networks have noted difficulties arising when trying to identify the extent and boundaries of these networks. As a response to calls for increasingly data-led approaches in media and cultural studies, we discuss a variety of social network analysis methods that can be used to identify which blogs can be seen as members of a posited &quot;Irish blogging network&quot; (and hence sources of textual material). We identify hub blogs, communities of sites corresponding to different genres of blog, and representative bloggers within these&nbsp; communities. Based on this study, we propose a set of analysis guidelines for researchers who wish to map out blogging networks.</p>

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<p>*Non-Clique Members</p>

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