Political Insights
Exploring partisanship in Web search queries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15116262 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Erik Borra (0000-0003-2677-3864, University of Amsterdam), Ingmar Weber (0000-0003-4169-2579, Yahoo (United Kingdom)) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Publication date | 2012-06-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | First Monday (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1396-0458 • E-ISSN: 1396-0466 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5210/fm.v17i7.4070 |
| OpenAlex | W2132269752 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
We developed Political Insights, an online searchable database of politically charged queries, which allows you to obtain topical insights into partisan concern. In this paper we demonstrate how you can discover such political queries and how to lay bare which issues are most salient to political audiences. We employ anonymized search engine queries resulting in a click on U.S. political blogs to calculate the probability that a query will land on blogs of a particular leaning. We are thus able to ‘charge’ queries politically and to group them along opposing partisan lines. Finally, by comparing the zip codes of users submitting these queries with election results, we find that the leaning of blogs people read correlates well with their likely voting behavior
Information retrieval · Internet privacy · Political science · Politics · Salient · Search engine · Voting · Voting behavior · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Media Influence and Politics · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence · Social Media and Politics · Artificial Intelligence
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,85 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |