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Political Networks

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Synonyms

Policy networks

Glossary

E-participation :

The process by which public concerns, needs, and values are incorporated into governmental and corporate decision-making.

Politics 2.0 :

The harnessing of the Internet’s lowered transaction costs and its condition of information abundance, toward the goal of building more participatory, interactive political institutions.

Social media analytics :

Its primary goal is to develop and evaluate scientific methods as well as technical frameworks and software tools for tracking, modeling, analyzing, and mining large-scale social media data for various purposes.

Definition

Political networks are social aggregations where citizens and politicians are connected and share and discuss ideas on political processes.

Introduction

In democratic countries, political parties feel responsible to participate in public political discussion. Following traditional theories, politicians and journalists bring up and moderate those political discourses as...

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Applied Cognitive Science, Professional Communication in Electronic Media/Social Media, University of Duisburg-Essen, Forsthausweg 2, 47057, Duisburg, Germany

    Stefan Stieglitz

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  1. Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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  2. University of Calgary Computer Science, Calgary, Canada

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  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Université du Québec en Outaouais (UQO), Gatineau, QC, Canada

    Rokia Missaoui

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Stieglitz, S. (2016). Political Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7163-9_86-1

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