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 on the keywords and key phrases we identified using WordStat in Part 2: from those stats we can extract …
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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 the prominence of key themes across the five weeks between 17 July and 24 August 2010. There are quite …
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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 chart the rise and fall of specific themes during the five weeks of campaigning that we’re examining here, and …
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Okay. A week and a half have passed since the Australian federal election on 21 August, and we’re still none the wiser about who will form the next government (though it’s worth mentioning in passing that it’s blatantly wrong to claim that Australia currently has no government – however dramatic the headlines, they’re simply incorrect). …
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So, just over 24 hours to go until the polls close and counting begins in the election we had to have – and I thought it was time again to have a look at how mentions of the two leaders in tweets tagged with the #ausvotes hashtag are shaping up. You’ll remember that Gillard was …
The other day I had a look at Twitter’s response to the Australian political leaders’ appearances on ABC1’s citizen forum-style show Q&A – by looking at the #qanda hashtag. My last post focussed especially on the commentary about Julia Gillard’s performance – today, it’s Tony Abbott’s turn. First, though: in comparing the volume of tweets …
Continue reading “Twitter’s Response to Q&A: Abbott Edition”
The other day I had a look at Twitter’s response to the Australian political leaders’ appearances on ABC1’s citizen forum-style show Q&A – by looking at the #qanda hashtag. My last post focussed especially on the commentary about Julia Gillard’s performance – today, it’s Tony Abbott’s turn. First, though: in comparing the volume of tweets …
Continue reading “Twitter’s Response to Q&A: Abbott Edition”
By popular demand, here’s part one of a first quick take on how Australia’s major political leaders fared with their appearances on the ABC’s Q&A programme, in the eyes of the (surprisingly massive) Twitter audience that Q&A manages to generate – for both of their appearances this week (Tony Abbott) and last (Julia Gillard), the …
Continue reading “Twitter’s Response to Gillard (and Abbott) on Q&A”
By popular demand, here’s part one of a first quick take on how Australia’s major political leaders fared with their appearances on the ABC’s Q&A programme, in the eyes of the (surprisingly massive) Twitter audience that Q&A manages to generate – for both of their appearances this week (Tony Abbott) and last (Julia Gillard), the …
Continue reading “Twitter’s Response to Gillard (and Abbott) on Q&A”
Ten days ago I posted a quick overview of the relative frequency with which Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott were mentioned by name in #ausvotes tweets (and ‘by name’ here includes mentions of their first and/or last names, as well as of their Twitter account names). What the data showed at that point was a …
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