Publications

• Network and Concept Maps for the Blogosphere
  2009-12-01
  While qualitative evidence for the networked patterns of discussion, debate, and deliberation in the blogosphere is readily available, it is more difficult to establish a solid quantitative picture of blog-based topical discussion networks and their cluster patterns. Large numbers of blogs (and individual blog posts, links, and comments) are likely to be involved in a quantitative study of ...
• The Self-Googling phenomenon
  2009-11-17
  This paper investigates self-googling through the monitoring of search engine activities of users and adds to the few quantitative studies on this topic already in existence. We explore this phenomenon by answering the following questions: To what extent is the self-googling visible in the usage of search engines; is any significant difference measurable between queries related to self-googling ...
• Critical Voices in the Australian Political Blogosphere
  2009-04-13
  This paper provides an update on an ongoing research project which maps and investigates the Australian political blogosphere, and expands on work presented at IR9.0 in Copenhagen (Bruns et al. 2008). The project is situated in a growing tradition of quantitative and mixed-method research into the shape and structure of national and international blogospheres (cf. e.g. Adamic & Glance, 2005; ...
• Mapping the Australian Political Blogosphere
  2009-04-06
  The blogosphere allows for the networked, decentralised, distributed discussion and deliberation on a wide range of topics. Based on their authors’ interests, only a subset of all blogs will participate in any one topical debate. Even within such debates, there will be an uneven distribution of participation based on a variety of sociocultural factors: - the time available for any individual ...
• Monitoring the Australian Blogosphere through the 2007 Australian Federal Election
  2009-04-06
  Mainstream and niche online media have played an important role in recent election campaigns both in Australia and abroad. The new US president’s social network my.barackobama.com alone is reported to have attracted more than 1.5 million members during the drawn-out US campaign season (Stirland 2008), and Obama is likely to attempt to utilise this network of supporters (which exists at arms’ ...
• Folksonomy und Tags oder warum es im Web keine Regale gibt
  2008-08-04
  Tags sind von Nutzern erstellte Metadaten, die das Verwalten und Teilen von Objekten im Internet erleichtern. Das Hinzufügen von Tags unterliegt keinen Regeln und auch keiner Form von terminologischer Kontrolle. Systeme in denen kollektive Tags zu Objekten hinzugefügt werden, bezeichnet man als Folksonomy. Dabei entwickeln sich Folksonomy von reinen Anwendungen zum Verwalten und Teilen von ...
• Using social network analysis to enhance information retrieval systems
  2008-07-23
  It is an ongoing trend that people increasingly reveal very personal information on social network sites in particular and in the World Wide Web in general. As this information becomes more and more publicly available from these various social network sites and the web in general, the social relationships between people can be identified. This in turn enables the automatic extraction of social ...
• Webservices als Basistechnologie für den Informationsverkauf im Internet
  2008-05-08
  Über eine Analyse von Informationsprodukten und des Informationsmarktes werden Anforderungsparameter definiert, welche für die Anwendung und Implementierung einer Web Service Architektur zum Informationsverkauf benötigt werden. Dazu werden die Eigenschaften von Informationsprodukten herausgearbeitet und eine Klassifikation der verschiedenen Informationsprodukte und ?provider vorgenommen. ...
• Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007
  2008-05-06
  Australian political bloggers and citizen journalists appear to have played an important role in the campaign leading up to the 24 November 2007 federal election. They provided a highly critical corrective to mainstream journalism, seemed to influence public opinion on key election themes, and offered a coverage of political events which diverted from the customary focus on political leaders and ...
• Locating the Australian Blogosphere: Towards a New Research Methodology
  2008-05-06
  Much has been written about the potential impact of the blogosphere on future patterns of global, national, and local public communication; blogs and other forms of distributed, networked, non-mass mediated discussion and engagement may fundamentally reconfigure the conventional model of the public sphere as it was formulated by Habermas and others during the second half of the past century. ...