[Air-l] Blogs as source of socio-demographic data

[Peter Timusk]

see this student's work.

papers from Fred Stutzman found at this web page

http://www.ibiblio.org/fred/academic.html


He has some qualifiers for his studies and attempts some sampling.

Not the best but may be one of the first.

Peter Timusk,
B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University
Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa (2006-2007).
just trying to stay linear.
Read by hundreds of lurkers every week.




On 30-May-07, at 1:14 PM, Alexander Semenov wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> recently I was surfing Russian facebook-clone vkontakte.ru and  
> decided to
> count statistics of political preferences. I don't consider my  
> results to
> be valid, so I've decided to ask about any thoughts, articles etc.  
> on the
> validity of blogs as a source of socio-demographic data (age, gender,
> location, political and religious preferences etc.). While I think  
> that
> other interests such as music, reading, films etc. are quite  
> reliable I
> can't say the same about socio-demographic data. What do you think?
> Thanks in advance.
> Best wishes,
> Alexander Semenov.
> MA student
> Faculty of Sociology
> Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES)
> http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html
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