Likewise, Bimber and Davis's book on US political websites (*Campaigning Online, *Oxford University Press, 2003) could be very useful. For more recent work, I'd suggest leafing through the Journal of Information Technology and Politics. One thing to keep in mind in your study, which I find often gets overlooked: please, please, please take the time to study/interview the vendors that produce these sites. In the US, there are probably 3 or 4 major shops that compete with each other to produce the web campaign materials for various political campaigns. I know that one of them, Blue State Digital, has made headway in the UK as well. The architecture and often the language of these sites is not being produced by parties or candidates themselves, but rather is being pitched to the parties or candidates. Many sites will cluster together not because of similar ideology, but because of an overlap in vendor. Best of luck with the study, -Dave On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Jankowski <nickjan@xs4all.nl> wrote:
Anna:
The following title may be of interest; the methodology chapter, which is online at the URL below, provides details on the study design and instrumentation.
Nick
Kluver, R., Jankowski, N. W., Foot, K., & Schneider, S. (eds.) (2007). The Internet and National Elections: A Comparative Study of Web Campaigning. London: Routledge. http://ipa.tamu.edu/projects/Elections.asp
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nickjan@xs4all.nl www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl (2009): <http://www.routledge.com/books/E-Research-isbn9780415990288>e-Research: Transformation in Scholarly Practice ICA pre-conference (2009): < http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/2009/future.asp>The Future is Prologue: New Media, New Histories? co-editor: <http://newmediaandsociety.com/>New Media & Society
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At 15:12 3-2-2010, anna wrote:
Dear all,
I am doing my research in the field of political studies. My first project was the analysis of language in a BBC forum using concordance and statistical programs. Having done that, I am now starting a new project which is going to be bigger and which is to result in a PhD thesis. As I still want to be in this field, I am thinking about analyzing political web sites, i.e. it can be official sites of presidents, political parties, etc. It would be interesting to see how these sites are constructed, what language is used there, and how the "ideology" of a party/politician is transmitted through these sites. I am not sure if I have been clear about my idea, but I would love to get your feedback and/or experience in doing similar research. Also, if you think that this idea isn´t worth working, tell me that! I am more than open for any kind of public opinion at this period of my research life!
Thank you very much,
Anna Ivanova PhD Candidate, University of Seville, Spain ivanova.re@gmail.com
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