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Australian Blogosphere – Categorisation Process

Australian Blogosphere – Categorisation Process

Aimee Hewson, 3 February 2011
Over the past few weeks, as part of the VRES program at QUT, I have been assisting Axel and Jean on their Social Media Mapping project.    The aim of the project is to try to understand [...]

Election 2010: The View from Twitter

Snurb, 24 November 2010
One more time for the world: there will be a final (I think) presentation for this year of our work around Twitter in the 2010 Australian election, at the International Australian Studies Association ‘Double Vision’ conference [...]

#ausvotes Twitter Activity during the 2010 Australian Election

Snurb, 17 October 2010
(Crossposted from snurb.info, where you can find my full coverage of ECREA 2010.) Hamburg. My own paper was next at ECREA 2010. Here’s the presentation – and I also recorded the audio for it, and will [...]

Fun with Gephi’s new dynamic visualisation feature

Fun with Gephi’s new dynamic visualisation feature

Jean Burgess, 6 October 2010
This is a quick demo of how the new timeline feature works in Gephi 0.7 beta. We’ve used 5 hours worth of @reply data from the Twapperkeeper archives for the #spill hashtag. This period corresponds to [...]

Mapping the Australian Blogosphere Some More

Mapping the Australian Blogosphere Some More

Snurb, 22 September 2010
My previous post outlined a few more steps I’ve taken in cleaning up our emerging dataset of links in the Australian blogosphere (current limitations of our data are also listed there). It’s time to take those [...]

First Steps in Mapping the Australian Blogosphere

First Steps in Mapping the Australian Blogosphere

Snurb, 20 September 2010
Following on from my previous post about the methods we’re starting to use to make sense of the Australian blogosphere data we’re receiving from our colleagues at Sociomantic Labs, here’s a first look at what happens [...]

Twitter @reply Networks on #ausvotes

Snurb, 10 September 2010
This post comes as something of a postscript to my four-part series about the key themes of discussion under the #ausvotes hashtag on Twitter during the recent Australian election campaign (17 July to 21 August 2010 [...]

Trends on #ausvotes during the Australian Election, Pt. 4

Snurb, 1 September 2010
And finally, following on from where we left off in Part 3 of this series, let’s have a look at some of the key themes of this election campaign, such as they were. Again, this builds [...]

Trends on #ausvotes during the Australian Election, Pt. 3

Snurb, 1 September 2010
Having looked (in Part 2 of this series of posts) at the overall keyword and key phrase trends in the over 400,000 #ausvotes tweets discussing the Australian federal election, we’re now in a position to chart [...]

Trends on #ausvotes during the Australian Election, Pt. 2

Snurb, 1 September 2010
So, on to part two of our examination of trends and patterns on the #ausvotes Twitter hashtag during the 2010 Australian federal election campaign. (Part 1 is here.) In the following posts, I’ll be interested to [...]