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This article examines the links to YouTube from the Facebook "walls" of the three major candidates in the 2008 U.S. Presidential election. User-generated linkage patterns show how participants in these politically related social networking dialogs used online video to make their points. We show how different types of individuals inhabit these overlapping public spheres and how they provide structure and interpretive information for others. Civic life is becoming more sociotechnical, and will therefore involve engagements with ideas as they are constructed by others out of disparate information sources and their interlinkages. KEYWORDS: E-participationInternet and politicsonline videosocial networking This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. 0535036 and 0827911 to the first author. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. The authors would also like to thank Dr. Mara Miller for valuable comments and suggestions. Notes 1. Data and computer program code used in these analyses will be available in the JITP area of Dataverse (http://dvn.iq.harvard.edu/dvn/dv/jitp) by March 31, 2010. Data consists of coded counts and frequencies since storage of raw data from Facebook activity violates Facebook's Terms of Service. 2. URLs lacking the "http" prefix would not appear as active links in Facebook.
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