This study, authored by Yochai Benkler and Aaron Shaw, revisits the assumptions of previous empirical studies of the United States political blogosphere, that left and right are relatively symmetric in terms of various forms of linking behavior despite their ideological polarization (Hargittai, Gallo & Kane, 2008; Hindman, 2008; Adamic & Glance, 2005).
Link-based network visualization of the U.S. political blogosphere from Adamic & Glance (2005)
Comparing the practices of discursive production and participation among top U.S. political blogs (top 155) on the left, right, and center during Summer, 2008. Notably reveal significant cross-ideological variations along several important dimensions (prevailing techniques of domain-based link analysis used to study the political blogosphere to date may have fundamental limitations).
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 sample) more often use blogs as platforms for mobilization as well as discursive production.
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