[Air-l] research on factors driving traffic to web sites

[Denise N. Rall]

Cristian -

My apopolgies if someone has already posted these
references. Denise


Web Campaigning
Kirsten Foot and Steven M. Schneider
Foreword by Michael Cornfield
December 2006
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11005

Schneider, S. M., & Foot, K. A. 2005. Web sphere
analysis: an approach to studying online action. In
Hine, C. (Ed.), Virtual Methods: Issues in social
research on the internet (pp. 157-170). Oxford: Berg
Publishers.

Thelwall, M. and L. Vaughn. 2004. Special Issue on
Webometrics. JASIST, 55(14).

Park, H.W. & Thelwall, M. (2003). Hyperlink analysis:
Between networks and  indicators, Journal of
Computer-Mediated Communication, 8(4): 
http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol8/issue4/park.html

Park, H.W. (2003). What is hyperlink network
analysis?: New method for  the   study of social
structure on the Web. Connections, 25(1), 49-61.
http://www.insna.org/Connections-Web/Volume25-1/7.Hyperlink.pdf

Also see Mike Thelwall:

http://www.scit.wlv.ac.uk/~cm1993/

His CV is posted there. He would be an authority on
web traffic.

Cheers, Denise

--- Cristian Vaccari <cristian.vaccari at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi all, 
> 
> I am doing research on factors that drive traffic to
> political (parties' and caniddates') web sites. Can
> anyone point me to some previous research in this
> field, e.g., studies that highlight some key
> variables that can account for a web site's amount
> of visitors, page views, etc.? Does not have to be
> about political web sites (though I could not find
> any kind of this research on political sites and
> would be curious to discover there is some), but
> also on commercial, news, social-networking, or
> other kinds of sites.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Cristian Vaccari
> www.cristianvaccari.it
> www.comunicarepolitica.it
> 
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Denise N. Rall, PhD
Southern Cross University, Lismore NSW 2480 AUSTRALIA 
Tues: Room T2.17, +61 (0)2 6620 3577 Mobile 0438 233 344 
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Virtual member, Cybermetrics Group, University of Wolverhampton, UK
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