The North/South Divide in NGO Hyperlink Networks

Shumate, Michelle; DeWitt, Lori

doi:10.1111/j.1083-6101.2008.00402.x

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“…However, a hyperlink between two organizations' websites does not occur automatically or randomly (Shumate and Dewitt 2008), but is a decision made internally within an organization as a strategic choice (Bach and Stark 2004). Hyperlink researchers agree that hyperlinks represent a wide range of communication behaviors, and hyperlink between two organizations may represent validation, trust, bonding, authority, and legitimacy (Park 2003;Vreelnad 2000).…”

Section: Corporation and Stakeholder Relationships Via Hyperlinksmentioning

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Corporate Relations with Environmental Organizations Represented by Hyperlinks on the Fortune Global 500 Companies’ Websites

Kim

Nam

2011

J Bus Ethics

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This study investigates corporate relationships with environmental organizations by examining hyperlinks in the corporate environmental responsibility (CER) sections of the Fortune 2008 Global 500 corporate websites. It is assumed that hyperlinked organizations either represent their current inter-organizational relationship or create symbolic relationships among organizations. Results show that Asian companies have fewer hyperlink relations with other organizations compared with those in North America and Western Europe. Network analysis also confirms that U.S. companies are explicitly connected with stakeholders for CER practices, and governmental organizations have a relatively central role in the global CER system. Nonprofit organizations are the most frequently hyperlinked with Fortune Global 500 corporations.

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Section: Corporation and Stakeholder Relationships Via Hyperlinksmentioning

confidence: 99%

Corporate Relations with Environmental Organizations Represented by Hyperlinks on the Fortune Global 500 Companies’ Websites

Kim

Nam

2011

J Bus Ethics

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“…At one level, a hyperlink can be thought of purely in terms of information provision and hence a sign of authority (Kleinberg, 1999) or trust (Davenport and Cronin, 2000) regarding the information on the page that is being hyperlinked to and the author of the information (the website owner). However, in the context of debate or contention over a social issue (such as abortion), it is also relevant to think of hyperlinks as reflecting communicative or strategic choices , organizational alliance building and message amplification (Park et al, 2004), and tools for the construction of information public goods in the context of collective action (Fulk et al, 1996;Shumate and Dewitt, 2008) and online collective identity (Ackland and O'Neil, 2011).…”

Section: Hyperlink Network Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

The Web as History

Brügger¹

2017

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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library.This book is published under a Creative Common 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Niels Brügger and Ralph Schroeder (eds. Table 5.2 Linear regression model explaining amount of country news mentions on BBC online 113 Table 5.3 Linear regression model explaining amount of country outlinks on BBC online 115 Table 6.1)Evaluation of the navigation and user interface of state websites 128 Table 7.1 Topics in three selected GeoCities neighbourhoods 149 Table 8.1 Direction and manifestation of ties in online networks 163 Table 8.2 Composition of sites (abortion stance) 167 Table 8.3 Composition of sites (site type) 167 Table 8.4 Top-20 sites ranked by Google, 2005 and 2015 169 Table 8.5 Network statistics 172 Table 8.6 Top-20 sites by indegree (full network) 176 Table 8.7 Top-20 sites by indegree (participant subnetwork) 178 Table 8.8 Top-20 sites by outdegree (full network) 179 Grant Blank is the Survey Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He is a sociologist specializing in the political and social impact of computers and the internet, the digital divide, statistical and qualitative methods, and cultural sociology. He is currently working on a project asking how cultural hierarchies are constructed in online reviews of cultural attractions. His other project links sample survey data with census data to generate small area estimates of Internet use in Great Britain. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago. L iS t o f Co N t Ri B u to R S xivJonathan Bright is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He is a political scientist specialising in political communication and computational social science (especially 'big data' approaches to the social sciences). His research concerns how people get information about politics, and how this process is changing in the internet era.

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“…The analyses we present next explore the differences among TAPGs in their particular patterns of mediation. Table 5 presents the regional distribution of TAPGs and directly linked organizations, using an eight-fold classification proposed by Smith (1997; also used by Dewitt 2008 andCarroll 2010) that incorporates the core-periphery distinction within the world-system. As already emphasized in Figure 3, many organizations have their headquarters in Western Europe; North America, Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa (especially South Africa) are also well represented.…”

Section: Inter-regional and North-south Mediationmentioning

confidence: 99%