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Prorogation Online: Partisans Carve up Canadian Social Media
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Created 17 Jan 2010 - 9:10pm

Key findings from our study of social media and the Canadian political blogosphere since Harper’s prorogation (December 30-January 12):

  • Unlike last year’s coalition crisis, Conservative bloggers have largely abandoned promoting Facebook groups. 83% of all links to Facebook in the blogosphere came from Liberal (49%) or NDP (34%) bloggers.
  • Tories meanwhile spent considerably more time referencing Wikipedia entries on a diverse range of issues, though curiously very few relating to Canadian politics or the parliament. (see chart below)
  • Non-partisan bloggers dominated Twitter to highlight anti-prorogation organizing. (see chart below)

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[6] http://www.infoscapelab.ca/files/Prorogue_PressRelease-final.pdf