Online and Offline Battles: Usage of Different Political Conflict Frames

Hypercitizens from a Distinct Society: Characterizing Quebec's Political Bloggers' Online and Offline Political Involvement

While many, mostly American, scholars have recently conducted quantitative and qualitative investigations of the structure and content of political blogs, few have focused on the political involvement of their authors. Based on data collected through an online survey conducted in April 2008, this paper proposes the first detailed account of the sociopolitical profile of 56 members of the Quebec...

Do personality traits predict civic engagement and political participation? Understanding offline and online engagement and participation

Online Appendix: Ideological Segregation Online and Offline

In table 2 we present standard errors for our main estimates. For estimates that come from MRI, the GSS or the CNES, we compute standard errors through a nonparametric bootstrap over samples of respondents. For estimates that come from comScore aggregate data, that is not an option. Instead we perform a parametric bootstrap in which we model the share conservative of each website as an independ...

Political Organisations and Online Mobilisation: Different Media - Same Outcomes?

The low turnout at the 2001 general election heightened concerns about the state of representative democracy and political participation in the UK. Increasingly, the Internet and other Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been seen as offering a possible means of reinvigorating political organisations and institutions in the UK. Enthusiasts have suggested that such technologies ca...

Offline and Online Facility Leasing

We study the problem of leasing facilities over time, following the general infrastructure leasing problem framework introduced by Anthony and Gupta [1]. If there are K different lease types, Anthony and Gupta give an O(K)-approximation algorithm for the problem. We are able to improve this to a 3-approximation algorithm by using a variant of the primal-dual facility location algorithm of Jain ...