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Can Twitter provide an early warning function for the next pandemic?
While traditional surveillance systems will remain the pillars of public health, online media monitoring has…
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Predicting elections on Twitter: a different way of thinking about the data
Social media monitoring, which in theory can extract information from tweets and Facebook posts and…
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Investigating the structure and connectivity of online global protest networks
The new networks of political protest, which harness these new online technologies are often described…
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Crowdsourcing translation during crisis situations: are ‘real voices’ being excluded from the decisions and policies it supports?
If you have ever worried about media bias then you should really worry about the…
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Why do (some) political protest mobilisations succeed?
Mobilisation paths are difficult to predict because they depend on the right alignment of conditions…
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Online collective action and policy change: new special issue from Policy and Internet
The internet has provided citizens with a greater capacity for coordination and mobilisation, which can…
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Did Libyan crisis mapping create usable military intelligence?
While many people continued to contribute conventional humanitarian information to the map, the sudden shift…
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Papers on Policy, Activism, Government and Representation: New Issue of Policy and Internet
Investigating the relationship between Internet-based applications and data and the policy process.
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UK teenagers without the Internet are ‘educationally disadvantaged’
The researchers’ interviews with teenagers reveal that they felt shut out of their peer group…
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New issue of Policy and Internet (2,2)
We are pleased to present six articles which investigate the role of the Internet in…