Debate, Division, and Diversity: Political Discourse Networks in USENET Newsgroups

type newsgroups Posts Replies XPosts Posters Repliers coded codemsg %codedideology 1alt.politics.bush 56216 48923 51222 3873 3384 40 9448 19.3%2alt.politics.democrats .d 20314 18256 19951 1590 1469 40 4874 26.7%3alt.fan.noam- chomsky 2777 2523 2633 463 425 29 1107 43.9%issue 4talk.politics. mideast 10678 9222 10370 1101 992 25 2521 27.3%5talk.abortion 9825 9603 5758 340 301 26 5186 54.0%6alt.politics.immigration 3504 2984 1833 443 394 21 1209 40.5%small 7soc.politics. marxism 223 189 0 45 30 27 156 82.5%8 hsv.politics 218 174 1 32 25 21 150 86.2%

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