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SYNTHESIS LECTURES ON INFORMATION CONCEPTS RETR...

Webometrics is concerned with measuring aspects of the web: web sites  web pages  parts of web
pages  words in web pages  hyperlinks  web search engine results. The importance of the web
itself as a communication medium and for hosting an increasingly wide array of documents  from
journal articles to holiday brochures  needs no introduction. Given this huge and easily
accessible source of information  there are limitless possibilities for measuring or counting
on a huge scale (e.g.  the number of web sites  the number of web pages  the number of blogs)
or on a smaller scale (e.g.  the number of web sites in Ireland  the number of web pages in the
CNN web site  the number of blogs mentioning Barack Obama before the 2008 presidential
campaign). This book argues that it can be useful for social scientists to measure aspects of
the web and explains how this can be achieved on both a small and large scale. The book is
intended for social scientists with research topics that are wholly or partly online (e.g. 
social networks  news  political communication) and social scientists with offline research
topics with an online reflection  even if this is not a core component (e.g.  diaspora
communities  consumer culture  linguistic change). The book is also intended for library and
information science students in the belief that the knowledge and techniques described will be
useful for them to guide and aid other social scientists in their research. In addition  the
techniques and issues are all directly relevant to library and information science research
problems. Table of Contents: Introduction   Web Impact Assessment   Link Analysis   Blog
Searching   Automatic Search Engine Searches: LexiURL Searcher   Web Crawling: SocSciBot  
Search Engines and Data Reliability   Tracking User Actions Online   Advaned Techniques  
Summary and Future Directions

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