In the 2010 election, the online space was seen as a battleground to be fought over. In future elections it could be used as a method for better understanding the public
Anstead, Nick
; and O’Loughlin, Ben
(2011)
In the 2010 election, the online space was seen as a battleground to be fought over. In future elections it could be used as a method for better understanding the public
[Online resource]
While journalists speculated about whether the 2010 UK General Election was the country’s ”first Internet election”, semantic polling (using algorithms to read social media data) was under-examined. Nick Anstead and Ben O’Loughlin explore the role of semantic polling in the 2010 election and argue that it will become even more important in the future.
| Item Type | Online resource |
|---|---|
| Departments | LSE |
| Date Deposited | 26 Oct 2011 15:51 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/39071 |
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