Local government web sites in Finland: A geographic and webometric analysis |
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Authors: | Kim Holmberg Mike Thelwall |
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Affiliation: | 1.Information Studies,?bo Akademi University,?bo,Finland;2.School of Computing and Information Technology,University of Wolverhampton,Wolverhampton,UK |
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Abstract: | It has been shown that information collected from and about links between web pages and web sites can reflect real world phenomena
and relationships between the organizations they represent. Yet, government linking has not been extensively studied from
a webometric point of view. The aim of this study was to increase the knowledge of governmental interlinking and to shed some
light on the possible real world phenomena it may indicate. We show that interlinking between local government bodies in Finland
follows a strong geographic, or rather a geopolitical pattern and that governmental interlinking is mostly motivated by official
cooperation that geographic adjacency has made possible. |
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