RE: [Air-l] uk election 2005
Hello AIR list. Some of you may be interested in the following, http://www.e-dem.org.uk/ This site goes live in the UK on Monday morning 25th April. The Teesonline e-mock elections are hosted by the Community Informatics Research and Applications Unit (CIRA) based at the University of Teesside. It is a non-partisan web-based virtual constituency with space for the main political parties to post their policies, interact with an electorate of young people and compete in an e-election. The constituency covers the Tees Valley and its North Yorkshire and Durham hinterland. The young people will decide the different areas that they want to discuss and a number of representatives from the three major parties will be meeting the young people online to answer their questions and listen to their concerns. The young people will be invited to vote for their party of choice on a daily basis with the final 'winning' vote taking place on Friday, 29th April. The final results will be posted on the site on 29th April. The guest log in is: name: edemguest password: guest It promises to be an interesting week. Regards, Ashley Wright Community Education Development Worker, CIRA, University of Teesside, Middlesbrough, TS1 3BA, UK t:01642 342715 e:a.h.wright@tees.ac.uk www.teesonline.org.uk/ <http://www.teesonline.org.uk/> www.cira.org.uk/ <http://www.cira.org.uk/> www.tees.ac.uk/ <http://www.tees.ac.uk/> ________________________________ From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of William Dutton Sent: Fri 22/04/2005 10:18 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] uk election 2005 Wainer and others, Stephen Ward (a former colleague of yours) and Stephen Coleman, both at the OII, are doing research around the 2005 UK general election. Stephen Ward has an ESRC grant to support his work, and Stephen Coleman is working with Channel 4 and others. Helen Margetts is also doing some research at the OII in this area, focusing more on the use of the Internet by minority parties. In due course, I believe they will have a good deal to say about the election, including the role of the Internet. Regards, Bill On 22 Apr 2005, at 08:47, Wainer Lusoli wrote:
I was just wondering if any list members had plans for (or were already) studying the use of the net in the UK 2005 general election. Or just following the campaign (online). Would be nice to hear what the impressions of AIR-ers are.
Kind regards
Wainer
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some of you may also be interested in estimations of broadband internet penetration by UK parliamentary constituency developed by a consulting group called Point Topic. We supplied some of the underlying data for this (estimates of narrowband household internet access by census ward). http://www.point-topic.com/content/dslanalysis/UK+election+guide.htm The geography you see is essentially the geography of wealth & urban dwelling in the UK with some interesting exceptions. IMHO the 'digital divide' is unlikely to be a strong election issue :-) Ben On 24 Apr 2005, at 00:46, Wright, Ashley wrote:
Hello AIR list.
Some of you may be interested in the following, http://www.e-dem.org.uk/
Ben: nice take on digital / electoral geography [footnote for the non-British: safe constituencies are largely deprived areas]. However research also finds that more election candidates have websites in 'wired' constituencies/electorates than in digitally deprived constituencies (valid in UK and Australia, I suspend judgement on th erest of the world :). Interesting paradox: not an 'overt' issue, but an issue nevertheless. Wainer ----------------------- Wainer Lusoli Research Fellow @ ESRI University of Salford http://www.lusoli.info w.lusoli@salford.ac.uk +44 (0)161 295 5126 -----------------------
-----Original Message----- From: air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-aoir.org-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Ben Anderson Sent: 26 April 2005 08:30 To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-l] uk election 2005
some of you may also be interested in estimations of broadband internet penetration by UK parliamentary constituency developed by a consulting group called Point Topic. We supplied some of the underlying data for this (estimates of narrowband household internet access by census ward).
http://www.point-topic.com/content/dslanalysis/UK+election+guide.htm The geography you see is essentially the geography of wealth & urban dwelling in the UK with some interesting exceptions. IMHO the 'digital divide' is unlikely to be a strong election issue :-) Ben On 24 Apr 2005, at 00:46, Wright, Ashley wrote:
Hello AIR list.
Some of you may be interested in the following, http://www.e-dem.org.uk/
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