Proposed Techniques for Data Collection and Analysis in the Study of News-Oriented Virtual Communities

There has been no shortage of excitement lately around the growing array of virtual communities available from the web. Global online communities now include hundreds of millions of members who are able to communicate almost instantaneously. Increasingly, traditional news organizations are finding they are being outpaced in coverage of world events by cadres of “citizen journalists” reporting in real time via social network sites such as Twitter and Facebook. For instance, no one expected the popular uprising that erupted in the wake of the Iranian presidential election results, which purportedly showed Mahmoud AhmadineABSTRACT

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