Influential Greek Political Blogs: What Are They Talking About?

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Author(s): Kostas Zafiropoulos (University of Macedonia, Greece), Dimitrios Vagianos (University of Macedonia, Greece)and Vasiliki Vrana (Technological Education Institute of Serres, Greece)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 12
Source title: Public Affairs and Administration: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Information Resources Management Association (USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8358-7.ch095

Keywords: Business Science Reference / Government & Law / Public & Sector Management / Public and Sector Management

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Blogs are becoming one of the most popular media of communication and interaction. They increase people's participation and enhance discussion on political matters. The chapter uses quantitative blog features analysis and associates it with content analysis of eParticipation topics to detect influential blogs in the Greek political blogosphere. Through a sampling procedure, 127 Greek political blogs are recorded. Four indexes of influence and one overall influence index are calculated for each one of them to record their influence. Further, content analysis of the blogs results in finding how many of them discuss eParticipation topics. Analysis shows that eParticipation topics discussion is a property of the influential political blogs.

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