publish or perish 2

ideas for papers:

an attempt at quantifying the effect of facebook on the spread of political ideas during a general election in an asian developed country.

• descriptive semi-qualitative study,
• can we take one idea and see how it spreads through the population via facebook compared to via traditional media such as word of mouth, print media, radio and television?
• singapore general elections 2011, when facebook is allowed for the first time in the polls.

the correlation between popularity as measured by the new media, facebook, and electoral success during a general election in an asian developed country.

• descriptive study,
• to include candidates with public facebook accounts,
• comparing number of facebook friends on polling day with percentage of votes garnered,
• checking for significance with the chi-square test.
• we'd have to tweak it for group representation constituencies though.
• singapore general elections 2011.

jus' sayin', y'know.