Issuecrawler 1.0 and Social Media DataDrivenUserJournalism RepresentationsOfGovernmentalWebsitesOnSocialMedia StartingPoints2 WebCurrencies Pace Online One day on...
Alternative Algorithms Team Alexander Galloway, Rosa Menkman, Michael Stevenson, Laura van der Vlies, Erik Borra. Design by Marieke van Dijk Description In th...
Anonymous Israeli Wikipedia Edits this is work in progress Introduction How active and in what way are Israeli present on Wikipedia? Given the Israeli IP range...
Anonymous Palestinian Wikipedia Edits this is work in progress Introduction How active and in what way are Palestinians present on Wikipedia? Given the Palesti...
INTERNET COFFEE EXPOSED Who works in coffee trade and do they form network? Manually three lists are composed: Multinationals, Fair trade Labeling Organizatio...
Comparison between Anonymous Palestinian and Israeli Wikipedia Edits this is work in progress Introduction In preceding research the anonymous edits to the Engli...
Comparison Political Websites Current point of critique on the Dutch political parties CDA en PvdA is that they are too much alike. The voters complain that ...
Data Driven User Journalism: The Case of the Afghan War Diary Team Members Camilo Cristancho, Catalina Iorga, Matteo Cernison Introduction Research Question Is...
De botting Wikipedia Project members: Anne Helmond and Kim Research questions: What is the bot activity per type within the Global Warming Sphere? How can we visu...
Team Members Anne Helmond and Carolin Gerlitz Research question How are commentspaces distributed across different platforms? If a website does not allow for com...
The Digital Methods Initiative About Us The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI) is one of Europe's leading Internet Studies research groups. Comprised of new media...
People Richard Rogers is University Professor and holds the Chair in New Media Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He is Director of Govcom.org, th...
Protocols devised by the DMI This page is being replaced gradually by our new research protocols and methods page. Hyperlink Analysis * Perfom an issue craw...
Main.AlexandraHache 06 Jul 2011 FB (h)as a Problem Team Members Alex, Sanjay, Lonneke Slides presentation July 2011 Introduction Research questions Methodolo...
Facebook and Publicness (Pilot Study) Team Members Catalina Iorga, Maria Aguado, Elisheva Weiss Introduction Methodology / Preliminary Findings To find Faceboo...
Cross spherical content comparison Team Members Anne, Nadia, Theresa, Carolin, Elisheva, Sanjay Research Question 1a. How is an issue being discussed across the...
DMI Summer School Salon Introduction During the Morning Salon we will discuss three texts from the DMI Summer School reader and an additional text (see e mail). ...
Digital Methods Summer School 2011 Schedule Week 1 Monday: June 27, 2011 Pre opening of the Summer School at the inauguration of National Media Studies centre. ...
Spanish Revolution Team Members * Alex, Diana S, Demet, Orsi Research Question Spanish revolution: comparing the mediascape of commercial social media (twitt...
Googling 9/11: Following the history of Google results and assessing the impact of algorithm changes Members Antoine Brunel, Camila G. Dantas, René König, Carlo ...
Greenwashing, in_authenticity protest.* Following the dynamics and relations of an ambiguous term on Twitter and the Web *Additional data and figures with a hig...
Digital Methods: Tools and Utilities The various scrapers, crawlers, etc. listed below may be useful for different digital methods. For convenience, the list is l...
DMI Tutorials Playlists of related lectures and tools * Search as Research * Internet Censorship Research * Web Historiographies * Wikipedia as a Cul...
Interface for the (Public) Graph Team Members Nadia Dresscher Lambertus, Catalina Iorga, Richard Rogers Introduction The project's aim is to discover and docum...
Track the Trackers Team Members Yngvil Beyer, Erik Borra, Carolin Gerlitz, Anne Helmond, Koen Martens, Simeona Petkova, JC Plantin, Bernhard Rieder, Lonneke van ...
The Dutch Blogosphere Weltevrede, Esther, and Anne Helmond. 2012. Where Do Bloggers Blog? Platform Transitions Within the Historical Dutch Blogosphere. First Mo...
The Dutch blogosphere Research on the Dutch blogosphere: * Blogocratie: Hoe weblogs burgers weer bij de politiek betrekken. Afstudeerscriptie van Jeroen Steem...
Dutch Politicians Blogosphere Lijst Blogs van Politici 1. linkripper en harvester gebruikt om lijst te maken van de blogs van politici vermeld op http://weblog...
Early blog features Team Members: Anne Helmond, Vera Bekema, Bram Nijhof, Niels Kerssens, Simon Marschall, Elena Tiis, Tjerk Timan. Research question * How do...
Facebook Scraper To get data from Facebook.com, a scraper has been built which currently can be found at: http://marijn.digitalmethods.net/scrapers/facebook.php ...
Mapping Future Histories of RFID: Workshop Results Recalling RFID On 19 20 October 2007, De Balie hosted a two day event called 'Recalling RFID', a programme by ...
Gay rights in different language Wikipedias go through the pages in different language Wikipedias that have an entry for "Gay Rights" three parts:1. Word count...
#Whomademyclothes Seeking the voices of the workers Team Members Lisa Madlberger, Òscar Coromina, Mylynn Felt, Jeroen de Vos, Emilio Fernández, Laura E. Cañuelas,...
HOWTO IC URL Extractor Description Extracts URLs from an Issuecrawler .xml file Links tool: Dmi.ToolExtractUrls results: on screen Input isscuecrawler xml source...
Localizing Hyves Networks: Sample Study and Tool Proposal Introduction Social networking sites provide large amounts of information about their members and the ...
Issue Animals Research With climate change, animals become endangered. Global warming as well as global cooling threatens the habitat of species, as animals migr...
Lippmannian Device Lippmannian Device? The Lippmannian device is named after Walter Lippmann, who in his Public Opinion book of 1922, and particularly in his seq...
Literature: Advanced Program Issuecrawler 1.0 and Social Media David Beer (2009). "Power through the algorithm? Participatory web cultures and the technological u...
Masters of Media Blog Some of the DMI team members also blog at Masters of Media. About The Masters of Media (MofM) blog is a collaborative effort by the New Me...
Meeting Summaries July 2 Source Distance Exercise At the first official meeting Richard points out what the Issue Crawler does: linking analysis between URL's,...
Digital Methods Initiative The Digital Methods Initiative is a contribution to doing research into the "natively digital". Consider, for example, the hyperlink, ...
Representations of Governmental Websites on Social Media Team Members Marije Rooze, Burak Dogu Introduction This study is mainly interested in the connection...
Nofollow / Indexing Issues in the Blogosphere Introduction: Indexing and Ranking Search engine critiques generally focus on either the allocation of pages to be ...
Open Data Outside the Open Data Bubble Team Members Dr. Christoph Raetzsch (Freie Universität Berlin), Prof. Helen Kennedy (University of Sheffield), Ivar Dussel...
Papers and Publications 2024 * Van der Vlist, F.N., A. Helmond, F.L. Ferrari (2024). Big AI: Cloud infrastructure and the industrialisation of artificial in...
Personalized Search Experiment Protocol Purpose Nicholas Negroponte is talking in The Daily Me (1995) about the decline of the shared experience and the decline...
Tagging Spaces: Exploring Popular and Related Tags Introduction Tagging is used by sites to describe and ultimately organize items by theme or key word. Individ...
DMI Projects The following is a list of projects carried out in the context of the Digital Methods Initiative. For a more general introduction, see the FAQ and th...
* Find high, medium, and low authorative starting points for an issue with the Technorati scraper and Charts of the (Relative) Actor Resonance Per Issue. Use thes...
1) Enter data set of URLs in the Censorship Explorer proxy tool. Check connection stats for censored URLs.2) Enter data set of URLs into Issue Crawler. Launch Iss...
Representations of Governmental Websites on Social Media Team Members Marije Rooze, Burak Dogu Introduction This study is mainly interested in the connection...
The Response of the Source Research question Do the embassies mentioned in the cables acknowledge the issue on their official websites? Do the sources acknowled...
RIGHT WING FORMATIONSIN EUROPE AND THEIR COUNTER MEASURES:AN ONLINE MAPPING Compiled by Richard Rogers and the Digital Methods Initiative, Amsterdam Contributors ...
Platform Resonance Sample Study Question Which platforms resonate most in the news about the Iran elections? A quick sample, comparing Twitter, Youtube and F...
Schedule: Advanced Program Monday, 9 August 2010 9:30 Welcome9:45 Opening talk: How Web 1.0 is the Issuecrawler? (R. Rogers)11:00 Coffee break11:30 Introductions ...
Working with the Google Scraper: an Exercise with Climate Change Skeptics Preparation 1. Download and install Firefox. 2. Install the Digital Methods FirefoxTool...
The Geographical Dispersions of the Somali and Rwandan Diaspora Team Members Week 1: Anna Berbers, Gabriele Colombo, Saskia Kok, Monia Massarini, Irina Papazu, R...
Starting points Issuecrawler maps from 28 May 2010 23 December 2010 http://alt0169.comhttp://babygrandpa.comhttp://bieslog.vpro.nlhttp://bit.ly/gotbloghttp://bl...
Starting points 2.0 Team members Erik Borra, Martin Feuz, Marc Tuters, Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff, Simeona Petkova, Esther Weltevrede Introduction Google CEO ...
Starting points created in 2011 Dutch Bloggies 2009 Long List. Starting points created in 2010 II Starting points provided by Bert Brussen s blogpost (including ...
Digital Methods Summer School 2007: New Objects of Study 2010 2009 2008 2007 How does one do research online? What are the new objects of study, and how do ...
Digital Methods Summer School 2009: Studying the Web with the Web? 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 Device keywords: Twitter, Wikipedia, Google and the Internet A...
Digital Methods Summer School 2010 "Foundations for Online Research with Digital Methods" The Digital Methods Initiative, a collaboration of the New Media Digi...
Exploring the Fabrics of Civic Tech on Digital Media Team Members Kersti Wissenbach (project host), Nicole Pauli, Ingrid Woudwijk, Ángeles Briones, Marcelo Santo...
Exploring the Fabrics of Civic Tech on Digital Media Team Members Kersti Wissenbach (project host), Nicole Pauli, Ingrid Woudwijk, Ángeles Briones, Marcelo Santo...
Mapping Transnational Motherhood: The Case of Romanian “Children Left Behind” Team Members Donya Alinejad, Claudia Minchilli Introduction The issue we want to m...
Retraining the machine: Addressing algorithmic bias Digital Methods Summer School 2018 Digital Methods Summer School 2–13 July 2018 Everyday location Digital...
NATURALNEWS.COM RADICALIZATION THROUGH WELLBEING Team members: Christina Meyenburg ,Dall Christensen, Shefali Bharati, Anna Couturier, Tim Groot, Taylor Geiger, M...
Amsterdam New Media Summer Talks: Networked Content Monday, 11 August 2008 1 5pm, at Nina van Leer Zaal, Allard Pierson Museum, Oude Turfmarkt 129 ( Bijzondere Co...
Find issuetags in the Tagosphere Issue: An issue is a claim that has been formatted in such a way (as a policy document, demonstration, boycott etc) that it circu...
DMI Tools Digital Methods Project Overview FAQ Tag Cloud Introduction The Digital Methods Initiative is a contribution to doing research into the "nati...
Koen * add tools.digitalmethods.net to dns pointing to issuecrawler.net * pluk dorling uit issuescraper, geef input optie zoals tag cloud, geef mogelijkheid ...
1. Choose Issuecrawler networks for comparison, or a regularly scheduled crawl. 2. Locate desired Issuecrawler xml files by right clicking 'xml source file' on th...
From our friends at the Medialab, Sciences Po, Paris: Web mapping based on the combination of three Open source tools: Navicrawler, Issuecrawler and Gephi.
To create a Dorling map: * Login with your Issue Crawler username. * Input tags (or phrases) and their values to produce a Dorling Map (i.e. bubble graphs)....
The Extract URLs module is built into the Issuecrawler, on the network details page. By clicking 'starting points and network URLs', the seed URLs as well as the ...
Project: Extract URLs from the Daily Kos blogroll * Go to dailykos.com * View page source (in Firefox, choose View Page Source or press ctrl u) * In the ...
For each document whether it be a page from an Issue Crawler network or text submitted by the user the Issue Discovery Tool does the following: 1 Make a ph...
The Issuedramaturg captured the apparent removal of 911truth.org from Google results for the query "9/11" September October 2007: http://issuedramaturg.issuecrawl...
Use the Issuegeographer to show on a geographical map where organizations in an issue network are based. The Issuegeographer takes Issuecrawler results, scrapes a...
The A2K, or access to knowledge, movement comprises an array of civil society organizations and academics, and is concerned with easing the means by which knowled...
Enter the URL of an Issuecrawler xml file. The xml source file URL looks like this: http://www.issuecrawler.net/files/inm_316224.xml The xml source file URL is lo...
The Open Calais Tool performs a textual analysis of a given text, website or set of websites. Input an Issuecrawler xml file, text or URLs to output a ranked tabl...
The xml source file URL looks like this: http://www.issuecrawler.net/files/inm_316224.xmlThe xml source file URL is located below your crawl result, on the networ...
This ranking mechanism is a loglikelihood algorithm which compares the key words in the first box to those in the second. This mechamism is also used in the Issue...
Enter a list of URLs. The input box works the same as the Issuecrawler harvester: dump text and the URLs are fetched out. Note only http:// and www. URLs are reco...
Research Aim Tracing and mapping early blogospheres and the emergence of the blogroll.Developing and testing a new tool an archive crawler to research the Inter...
Distribution of Activism on Facebook Introduction 'Facebook activism' is often said to be a form of 'slacktivsm'. Critics of activist efforts on Facebook argue t...
Why Food Traceability? The adoption and definition of emerging technology by actors in the food security and green blogs networks. Introduction Ethical criticism...
A Protest's Web: The Cross Syndication Practices of G20 Toronto Summit Online Protest Platforms Team Members Anne Helmond, Catalina Iorga, Alejandro Ortega. In...
Absence and Presence in Actor Language: Dealing with Women's Rights Issues Online A Saudi Arabian Case Study Team Members Chiara, Brittney, Magda, Hinna, and Ale...
Project Name Synthetic Biology a Transatlantic Comparison of Future Visions Introduction It's Alive! , Let there be life! Such was the wording of many newsp...
WeScrape Introduction Several different applications have been developed to be able to extract and use data from the web. They are often refered to as Mashup's....
webantennE eParticipation and webantennE Conventional eParticipation initiatives involve "the use of information and communication technologies to broaden and d...
Web Currencies 2 Followup on Web Currencies. Paper citation: Gerlitz, Carolin, and Anne Helmond. 2013. The Like Economy: Social Buttons and the Data Intensive We...
Project: Where are We? Finding what kind of space online exists for women electronic music composers Team Members Magda Olszanowski and her laptop Literature Rol...
Wiki structure ideas This page is dedicated to great structural ideas and wishes for this wiki and is targeted at contributors to this wiki. To discuss * Lang...
Mapping the Publics of Public Finance Team Members: Jonathan Gray, Anna Alberts, Cecile Le Guen, Eileen Wagner, Danny Lämmerhirt, Lucie Sedmihradská, Sergej Lugov...