Current Projects

2010 - 2011
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2010 - 2011
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A collaborative open source documentary based on the book by Greg Elmer and Andy Opel. By publishing a “road map” of production, this project will engage the audience through all stages of the project, and will create both a feature length documentary and enable a non-linear open source cinematic database that will evolve over time.

2007 - 2011
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2007 - 2011
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The lab develops new theories, methods, and tools to interrogate the complexities of networked culture. After three years of analyzing partisan blogging, election videos on Youtube, and political networking on Facebook, the lab is launching the Open Research Initiative – an effort to make our research data and tools public through the creative commons license.

2010
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2010
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This project is to support and extend the pioneering work initiated by Korean political communication scholars in this area through development of collaborative relations with a core of researchers.

2006 - 2007
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2006 - 2007
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This research project brings together an accomplished group of international scholars that have largely studied the most recent wave of this phenomenon (1990-2002) - productions that have in large part migrated to Australia, New Zealand, and in the largest numbers to Canada.

Social Media & Politics Archive

2008 - 2009
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2008 - 2009
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Bloggers' Opinions of Liberal Leadership Candidates.

2008
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2008
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Analysis of web and social media activity leading up to 2008 provincial election in Alberta.

2007 - 2008
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2007 - 2008
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Analysis of web and social media activity leading up to 2008 federal election.

2007
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2007
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Analysis of web and social media activity leading up to 2007 Australian federal election.

2007
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2007
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How is the internet changing provincial politics in Ontario. This research project tracks both official and unofficial online campaigning for the Ontario Election 2007.

2007
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2007
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Examination of the movement of issues through media over time via coding, archival and analytical research into online media processes, understood as code politics.

2006
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2006
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This research project tracks on a weekly and monthly basis blog and news coverage of candidates in the Leadership race for the Liberal Party of Canada. The research is investigating the relationship between a candidate’s coverage in the news compared to the less formal blogosphere.