Mapping the Australian political blogosphere

Bruns, Axel, Kirchhoff, Lars, & Nicolai, Thomas (2009) Mapping the Australian political blogosphere. In WebSci '09, 18-20 Mar. 2009, Athens, Greece.

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Abstract

Network crawling and visualisation tools and other datamining systems are now advanced enough to provide
significant new impulses to the study of cultural activity on the Web. A growing range of studies focus on
communicative processes in the blogosphere – including for example Adamic & Glance’s 2005 map of political
allegiances during the 2004 U.S. presidential election and Kelly & Etling’s 2008 study of blogging practices in
Iran.
There remain a number of significant shortcomings in the application of such tools and methodologies to the
study of blogging; these relate both to how the content of blogs is analysed, and to how the network maps
resulting from such studies are understood. Our project highlights and addresses such shortcomings.

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ID Code:	27487
Item Type:	Conference Item (Poster)
Keywords:	blogs, politics, Australia, network mapping, methodology
Subjects:	Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY (160000) > POLITICAL SCIENCE (160600) > Australian Government and Politics (160601) Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > LANGUAGES COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE (200000) > COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES (200100) > Media Studies (200104) Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > LANGUAGES COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE (200000) > COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES (200100) > Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies (200102)
Divisions:	Current > Research Centres > ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation Current > QUT Faculties and Divisions > Creative Industries Faculty Past > Institutes > Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation Current > Schools > Journalism, Media & Communication
Deposited On:	22 Sep 2009 14:42
Last Modified:	11 Aug 2011 02:31

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