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 -- anna . -- Скачай новую ICQ 7.0 http://icq.rambler.ru/
Paul Ferber at Rochester Institute of Technology did a number of surveys of state legislature websites in the past decade: http://www.rit.edu/cla/politicalscience/faculty/profiles/paulFerber_research... --Erhardt On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:12 AM, anna <annclub1@rambler.ru> 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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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 ************************************************************************************************* Nicholas W. Jankowski Visiting Fellow Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Amsterdam, NL 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 ************************************************************************************************** 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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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
************************************************************************************************* Nicholas W. Jankowski Visiting Fellow Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Amsterdam, NL
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
-- anna .
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Hi Anna, Also take a look at Jamie Druckman's work in this area: Druckman et al. "Issue Engagement on Congressional Candidate Web Sites, 2002—2006" http://ssc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/28/1/3 It's also worth noting which candidates do *not* have websites. I think, for example, Nancy Pelosi (speaker of the House of Representatives in the U.S.) was one of the few in congress not to have a campaign website in a recent race. Good luck with your study! Ericka Menchen-Trevino Ph.D. Candidate - Media, Technology & Society program School of Communication, Northwestern University "As social scientists, we aim to say something interesting--perhaps even true--about social life." Andrew Abbott On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Dave Karpf <davekarpf@gmail.com> wrote:
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
************************************************************************************************* Nicholas W. Jankowski Visiting Fellow Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences Amsterdam, NL
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
**************************************************************************************************
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
-- anna .
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Interesting topic, and while I'm sure you could find many case studies, I might suggest the U.S. president candidate Barack Obama's website and whole digital presence. He went on to eventually win the presidency, and I think his digital footprint had a lot to do with the win; very specific linguistics where used, very specific colour schemas and content shapes were used, as was the user experience very specific to the candidate. I could probably get you all the user data from the Obama iPhone application and point you who to talk to about their campaign website, if you wanted this set of information. On Feb 3, 2010, at 6:12 AM, 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
Hi Anna, There are a number of great studies on this topic, and yes it's worth studying! Here are some additional suggestions to add to the others offered so far: *Kirsten Foot & Steve Schneider's book Web Campaigning. *The edited collection titled The Internet Election: Perspectives on the Web in campaign 2004 by Andrew Williams and John Tedesco *Robert Denton edits a series of books (The XXXX presidential election: A communication perspective) that have looked at campaign 2000, campaign 2004, and campaign 2008. Each edited book has at least 1 chapter on the presidential campaign websites. I think some of the work by Barbara Warnick might be of interest to you. See: *Endres, D., & Warnick, B. (2004). "Text-based Interactivity in Candidate Campaign Web Sites: A Case Study from the 2002 Elections." Western Journal of Communication, 68 (3), 322-342 *Warnick, B. (1998). "Appearance or reality?: Political Parody on the Web in Campaign '96." Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 15, 306-324 I have also written a little bit on the topic. See: *Stromer-Galley, J. (2000). On-line interaction and why candidates avoid it. Journal of Communication, 5(4), 111-132. Good luck, ~Jenny Associate Professor Department of Communication Social Science 351 University at Albany, SUNY Albany, NY 12222 518-442-4873 jstromer@albany.edu http://www.albany.edu/~jstromer
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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
-- anna .
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Dear Anna, I wrote a chapter of a book that you might find useful: Baringhorst, S. - Kneip, V. - Niesyto, J. 2009 *Political campaigning on the web*, Transcript Verlag: Bielefeld You can find it on Google Books<http://books.google.it/books?id=o_0S9aF--3IC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22political+campaigning+on+the+web%22&source=bl&ots=eNo2y8obl6&sig=x4858X10fPuzKdX0cF4XhWaBMgs&hl=it&ei=HZ1qS9i8IaSKmwOuqbX3BA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false> . Good luck with your research, Daria -- Daria Santucci Professor of Web communication Semiotics Ph.D. in Political Science University of Torino, Italy twitter dariatweet skype dariaonline 2010/2/3 anna <annclub1@rambler.ru>
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
-- anna .
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