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Title: | Homophily among VAA users: The case of Ecuador | Authors: | Manavopoulos, Vasilis Mendez, Fernando Serdult, Uwe |
metadata.dc.contributor.other: | Μαναβόπουλος, Βασίλης | Major Field of Science: | Social Sciences | Field Category: | Media and Communications | Keywords: | Homophily;Online Social Media;Social Network Analysis;Voting Advice Applications | Issue Date: | 1-Jan-2015 | Source: | 2nd International Conference on eDemocracy and eGovernment, ICEDEG 2015; Quito; Ecuador; 8 April 2015 through 10 April 2015 | DOI: | 10.1109/ICEDEG.2015.7114487 | Abstract: | Users who recommended a Voting Advice Application online platform to others in their social networks were tied to any individuals who elected to follow the recommendation, in order to form a network dataset. This study examines the homophily hypothesis, the tendency of Inviters and Invitees to be disproportionately similar in demographics, political orientation and attitudes for VAA-generated data, employing random y-permutation statistical techniques borrowed from Social Network Analysis. The results confirm the homophily hypothesis, with Invitees being more similar with their respective Inviters, than would have been expected by chance or population make-up for all variables examined, demographic, political and attitudinal, with the exception of gender. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14279/9498 | ISBN: | 978-390758913-7 | Rights: | © 2015 University of Fribourg. | Type: | Conference Papers | Affiliation : | Cyprus University of Technology University of Zurich |
Publication Type: | Peer Reviewed |
Appears in Collections: | Δημοσιεύσεις σε συνέδρια /Conference papers or poster or presentation |
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