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E-Participation Portals Automated Monitoring System for Political and Social Research

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Digital Transformation and Global Society (DTGS 2016)

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This paper presents the opportunities, advantages and limitations of e-participation portals automated monitoring system (AMS) in social and political research. The system was initially developed in 2013 to analyse petitioning and voting dynamics of the Russian e-petitions portal – the Russian Public Initiative – and then was further expanded. In the paper the architecture and working principles of the system are described. It is argued and exemplified that the data collected automatically from e-petition portals can be used to advance research in several areas: media and PR effects on political participation, issue salience, as well as factors of voting behavior and online political engagement.

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    Andrei V. Chugunov & Ksenia Zenchenkova

  2. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

    Yury Kabanov

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  1. ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Andrei V. Chugunov

  2. Saint Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Radomir Bolgov

  3. National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Yury Kabanov

  4. Eotvos University Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

    George Kampis

  5. Universität Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany

    Maria Wimmer

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Chugunov, A.V., Kabanov, Y., Zenchenkova, K. (2016). E-Participation Portals Automated Monitoring System for Political and Social Research. In: Chugunov, A., Bolgov, R., Kabanov, Y., Kampis, G., Wimmer, M. (eds) Digital Transformation and Global Society. DTGS 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 674. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49700-6_27

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