Cristian - My apopolgies if someone has already posted these references. Denise Web Campaigning Kirsten Foot and Steven M. Schneider Foreword by Michael Cornfield December 2006 http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11005 Schneider, S. M., & Foot, K. A. 2005. Web sphere analysis: an approach to studying online action. In Hine, C. (Ed.), Virtual Methods: Issues in social research on the internet (pp. 157-170). Oxford: Berg Publishers. Thelwall, M. and L. Vaughn. 2004. Special Issue on Webometrics. JASIST, 55(14). Park, H.W. & Thelwall, M. (2003). Hyperlink analysis: Between networks and indicators, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 8(4): http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol8/issue4/park.html Park, H.W. (2003). What is hyperlink network analysis?: New method for the study of social structure on the Web. Connections, 25(1), 49-61. http://www.insna.org/Connections-Web/Volume25-1/7.Hyperlink.pdf Also see Mike Thelwall: http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1993/ His CV is posted there. He would be an authority on web traffic. Cheers, Denise --- Cristian Vaccari <cristian.vaccari@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I am doing research on factors that drive traffic to political (parties' and caniddates') web sites. Can anyone point me to some previous research in this field, e.g., studies that highlight some key variables that can account for a web site's amount of visitors, page views, etc.? Does not have to be about political web sites (though I could not find any kind of this research on political sites and would be curious to discover there is some), but also on commercial, news, social-networking, or other kinds of sites.
Thanks,
Cristian Vaccari www.cristianvaccari.it www.comunicarepolitica.it
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