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Petition growth and success rates on the UK No. 10 Downing Street website
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Now that so much of collective action takes place online, web-generated data can further understanding of the mechanics of Internet-based mobilisation. This trace data offers social science researchers the potential for new forms of analysis, using real-time transactional data based on entire populations, rather than sample-based surveys of what people think they did or might do. This paper uses a ‘big data’ approach to track the growth of over 8,000 petitions to the UK Government on the No. ...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Association for Computing Machinery*Publisher name* Publisher's website
- Host title:
- 5th Annual ACM Web Science Conference
- Journal:
- ACM Web Science 2013 Journal website
- Volume:
- abs/1304.0588
- Pages:
- 132-138
- Publication date:
- 2013-05-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2013-03-01
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- ISBN:
- 9781450318891
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pubs:425797
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- pubs:425797
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- Deposit date:
- 2016-03-19
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- Copyright holder:
- Hale et al
- Copyright date:
- 2013
- Notes:
- © Scott A. Hale, Taha Yasseri, and Helen Margetts, 2014. This is the authors’ version of the work. It is posted here for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version is published in WebSci ’13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2464464.2464518.
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