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Thu Apr 29, 2010 at 06:45:44 AM EDT
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| Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet and Society just released a study of the differences between progressive and conservative political blogs. Conventional wisdom holds that left and right blogs are consistent in their technologies and usages, but this study found otherwise.
Here's a quick preview:
Sites on the left adopt more participatory technical platforms; are comprised of significantly fewer sole-authored sites; include user blogs; maintain more fluid boundaries between secondary and primary content; include longer narrative and discussion posts; and (among the top half of the blogs in our sample) more often use blogs as platforms for mobilization as well as discursive production.
This may seem like a Profound Grasp of the Obvious, but it's pretty interesting to see it quantified. |
| kelster :: A Tale of Two Blogospheres |
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