IssueCrawler Results: David Hicks-Related Blog Posts, March 2007

The network maps below show the results of IssueCrawler crawls of blog posts containing the phrase "David Hicks" and relating to the case of Australian-born Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks, in March 2007. Authority levels relate to the choice of seeds for the network crawl - using the Technorati authority settings "a lot of", "some", and "a little authority" as a filter for recent blog posts. For more detail, see IssueCrawling the Australian Blogosphere: Mapping Discussions about David Hicks.

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High Authority Network

Network from a seed of blogs with "high authority" on Technorati; node size indicates number of inlinks received. [View interactive SVG graph]

Network from a seed of blogs with "high authority" on Technorati; node size indicates centrality in the network (inlinks received plus outlinks made). [View interactive SVG graph]

Medium Authority Network

Network from a seed of blogs with "some authority" on Technorati; node size indicates number of inlinks received. [View interactive SVG graph]

Network from a seed of blogs with "some authority" on Technorati; node size indicates centrality in the network (inlinks received plus outlinks made). [View interactive SVG graph]

Low Authority Network

Network from a seed of blogs with "a little authority" on Technorati; node size indicates number of inlinks received. [View interactive SVG graph]

Network from a seed of blogs with "a little authority" on Technorati; node size indicates centrality in the network (inlinks received plus outlinks made). [View interactive SVG graph]

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