Entering the general election season with a sneak preview
It seems that both the Republican party and the Democratic party have finally settled on their respective nominees. Once the vice presidential candidates have been chosen, the 2008 primary season will be definitively behind us.At Presidential Watch 08 we also believe it’s more than time to shift our focus to the general election.As a consequence, we have upated our map of the U.S. political webosphere for even more insight into the presidential race. Our new map, of which a small preview is shown here, will reveal:- the 500 most influential websites of the U.S. political webosphere;- the newcomers to this online territory;- the locations of the candidates’ websites;- a refined categorisation of websites that abandons traditional media categories (Mainstream Media vs. Social Media) to offer an accurate view of this territory as one of mainly partisan websites, with some playing the role of information pits (or infopits, but we’ll come back to that in a following post).We have also prepared very interesting case studies that will reveal, on our maps, the presence of large policy issues in specific areas of the political webosphere or the existence of sub-communities among the Liberals and the Conservatives.We will be showcasing all this and more at the Beyondbroadcast conference in Washington D.C., at the Personal Democracy Forum in NYC. and on presidentialwatch08.comStay tuned for an insightful approach to the general networked election!
June 24th, 2008 at 10:51 am
“Search” does not seem to work — when I search for http://www.washingtonmonthly.com, for example, I get “no results”.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Don’t put the http:// and it’ll be fine :)
June 24th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
Please write a little more about this. What are the dimensions? What are “authority” and “xeno”? (Inbound and outbound inks?) What are the “contour lines”? As is, this is pretty but cryptic. It’s hard to know what to take away from it.
June 24th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
all is explained here : http://presidentialwatch08.com/index.php/map-keys/ !
June 25th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Though I, sniffle, am sad that cdrsalamander.blogspot.com didn’t make the cut - but I do have a correction for you. www.acepilots.com has not been “Red” in almost 4 years. He is a “blue” Obama man now.
Great put-together though!
July 3rd, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Polarized Partisan Politics Promotes Popular Participation…
In recent weeks three studies have been getting attention from bloggers, focusing on the polarized political web, polarized political book buyers, and polarized political blog readers. Presidential Watch 08 is showcasing their latest Map of the politi…
July 3rd, 2008 at 10:59 pm
@CDR Salamander
You did not make it to the top 533, however you rank 2,500th out of a total exceeding 4,000!
Thank you for pointing out to acepilots. That’s something very interesting, although the blog there clearly displays support for Obama, the linking pattern, or the position in the graph if you will, clearly shows acepilots.com has far more reach in the Conservative community than in the Liberal community. In other words, acepilots.com does not yield much influence in the Liberal community, however it is an interesting outpost for Liberal messages in the Conservative community.
July 3rd, 2008 at 11:15 pm
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