Evaluating emergent collaboration on the Web
CSCW '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Authoritative sources in a hyperlinked environment
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
What makes Web sites credible?: a report on a large quantitative study
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Links and power: the political economy of linking on the Web
Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM conference on Hypertext and hypermedia
Information Politics on the Web
Information Politics on the Web
Are people biased in their use of search engines?
Communications of the ACM - Alternate reality gaming
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In this paper, we unravel the complex ontological relationship between the empirical hyperlink networks enacted by strategic organizational actors and the epistemic issue networks enacted by decision makers who navigate hyperlinks to construct the boundaries of an issue. To conceptualize this relationship, we present a dual structurational model of issue network emergence that demonstrates the processes by which decision makers come to read and structure their comprehension of an issue out of their experience navigating a hyperlink network. We then discuss how the emergence of an issue network from a hyperlink network has consequences for both the decision makers that wish to act on the social issue and the organizational actors who create links. The model is demonstrated using the Chicago Climate Action Plan, a climate change initiative underway in Chicago, as an abbreviated case study. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.