The Infoscape Lab has launched its latest Code Politics project in advance of the Prime Minister Harper's announcement of an election on Sunday, September 7. Please follow the links off the main page to explore Canada's online political landscape and keep checking this space for updates and commentary by the Infoscape Lab.
More details to follow. For information please contact Greg Elmer, gelmer@ryerson.ca
Rogers Communication Centre, Room 229
6pm Thursday November 6, 08
Robert Latham, York University
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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canadavotes/campaign2/ormiston/
The IRL is very pleased to announce that Kady O'Malley (Macleans.ca), one of Ottawa's most respected press gallery reporters, has agreed to join the lab in an advisory capacity.
Ken Werbin (Concordia U.) will be joining the Infoscape Research Lab effective March 1, 2008. Ken's dissertation focuses on the political use of lists in the context of an emergent ICT sector. Ken will greatly strengthen the IRL's research capacities in new media, user-generated content, and the political implications of ICTs. Welcome Ken!
On Saturday June 2, 2007, Susan Delacourt of Toronto Star used research from the Lab's on-going Code Politics: Party Leaders and Partisans on YouTube project to discuss the online reaction to new videos from the Liberals and Conservatives. The article is accessible on the Star's website: http://www.thestar.com/News/article/220723.
The Infoscape Research Lab is pleased to announce its first report from the Liberal Leadership Race 2006 was published in First Monday. The article Election bloggers: Methods for determining political influence is now online. The article discusses some methodological approaches to measuring political influence in the blogosphere.
This paper discusses early findings and methodological pitfalls of a study of a hyper–mediated election campaign in Canada. Web logs — or “blogs” — serve as the primary object of study. The paper focuses on possible sources of large scale data (aggregated blogger posts) and methods of determining the political influence of bloggers. A series of methodologies are proposed to resolve the over–reliance upon information aggregators and blog search engines provided by Google and Technorati.
