Political Influence of the Blogosphere: degree of interaction and behavior among top conservative and liberal political bloggers during the November Presidential election
Researchers "Geocoding the Blogosphere" Portend Stronger, More Authentic Detection and Analysis of Social Trends
Researchers in the University at Buffalo's School of Informatics have undertaken a long-term research project to study how information from blogs produced in specific American urban areas reflects the political agendas, opinions, attitudes and cultural idiosyncrasies of the general population of those places.
"It is our contention that the totality of content across millions of weblogs vividly and objectively depicts the social landscape and ideology at certain points of time and space," says Alexander Halavais, Ph.D., assistant professor of communication in the UB School of Informatics.
