8(4) July 2003 Margaret McLaughlin and Sheizaf Rafaeli, Editors |
 The authors examine the linking practices of U.S. Congressional candidate Web sites during the 2002 campaign season.  The authors find that the publicly available search engines lack stability and transparency, and they do not present their results in a way that is suitable for the creation of data sets. 
This paper reviews the emergence from theoretical physics of a new specialty which analyzes the Internet and the Web as complex networks. 
The authors provide an extended review of hyperlink network analysis (HNA) and Webometrics, and reflect on their application.  
A recent subscriber survey suggests that the Web offers a wider array of gratifications than magazines, and delivers them in a superior fashion. 
Although e-mail is thought to be an effective means of communicating politically by legislators, it is not being implemented as a political tool. |
 Image by Maarten Derksen Internet Networks: The Form and the Feel Anne Beaulieu and Han Woo Park, Editors   In this special issue the authors reflect on the relation between formal analysis of networks and issues of the content and substance of these networks in Internet studies.  The author follows the development of the metaphor of "Frankenfood" in the ongoing debate over GM food, and then maps the uses of the metaphor by various sites on the Web. 
This article details a set of procedures for the analysis and interpretation of the content and structure of online networks and communities. |
