Monitoring the Australian Blogosphere through the 2007 Australian Federal Election


Autoria(s): Kirchhoff, Lars; Nicolai, Thomas; Bruns, Axel; Highfield, Tim
Data(s)

2009

Resumo

This paper examines the observable patterns of content creation by Australian political bloggers dur‐ing the 2007 election and its aftermath, thereby providing insight into the level and nature of activity in the Australian political blogosphere during that time. The performance indicators which are identi‐fied through this process enable us to target for further in‐depth research, to be reported in subse‐quent papers, those individual blogs and blog clusters showing especially high or unusual activity as compared to the overall baseline. This research forms the first stage in a larger project to investigate the shape and internal dynamics of the Australian political blogosphere. In this first stage, we tracked the activities of some 230 political blogs and related Websites in Australia from 2 November 2007 (the final month of the federal election campaign, with the election itself taking place on 24 Novem‐ber) to 24 January 2008. We harvested more than 65,000 articles for this study.

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application/pdf

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/27484/

Relação

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/27484/1/27484.pdf

http://www.anzca09.org/

Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas, Bruns, Axel, & Highfield, Tim (2009) Monitoring the Australian Blogosphere through the 2007 Australian Federal Election. In ANZCA 2009, 8-10 July 2009, Brisbane.

Fonte

ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation; Creative Industries Faculty; Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation; Journalism, Media & Communication

Palavras-Chave #160601 Australian Government and Politics #200104 Media Studies #200102 Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies #blogs #Australia #politics #election #network mapping
Tipo

Conference Paper