Mapping the Networked Public Sphere: How Blogs, Mainstream Media and Official Sources Interact:

Ken Deutsch, Stan Magniant, Vincent Ducrey, Michael Cornfield (moderator)

Semantic Analysis can’t be entirely automated.

Additive process, you don’t stop what you are doing, but add and focus. It’s like Media Markets and Broadcast, they are influenced, but not limited to state lines.

Is location indicated on a blog? If you look at main newspaper in a state, then look at blogs liking into it, you can, sometimes, assign a blog to a state, or locality.

Community Extraction and what falls into “liberal” vs. “conservative”; analyze linking patterns.

Fuzziness between clusters of people, identifying who your interlinking (what you want to do) vs. Behavior (red vs. Blue). Wish there was a way to automated way to do this, but there isn’t.

What is the role of perfessional journalism in the kind of maps being provided? It turns out, bloggers read journalists, but it may be that bloggers.