http://gatewatching.org/2008/06/10/concept-maps-for-selected-australian-political-blogs-part-ii/ researching citizen journalism Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:11:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://gatewatching.org/2008/06/10/concept-maps-for-selected-australian-political-blogs-part-ii/#comment-833 The Blogopticon : Tree of Knowledge Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:28:35 +0000 http://gatewatching.org/2008/06/10/concept-maps-for-selected-australian-political-blogs-part-ii/#comment-833 [...] light of the recent debate that the guys at Gatewatching have prompted over the thematic content of the Oz Blogosphere, is anyone game to try to produce an Australian version of the Vanity Fair [...] [...] light of the recent debate that the guys at Gatewatching have prompted over the thematic content of the Oz Blogosphere, is anyone game to try to produce an Australian version of the Vanity Fair [...]

]]> http://gatewatching.org/2008/06/10/concept-maps-for-selected-australian-political-blogs-part-ii/#comment-823 kevin of southbank Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:27:17 +0000 http://gatewatching.org/2008/06/10/concept-maps-for-selected-australian-political-blogs-part-ii/#comment-823 Again be careful. Landeryou is using this analysis to argue he is fair and balanced. He is clearly distorting your results and findings. Again be careful. Landeryou is using this analysis to argue he is fair and balanced. He is clearly distorting your results and findings.

]]> http://gatewatching.org/2008/06/10/concept-maps-for-selected-australian-political-blogs-part-ii/#comment-820 gatewatching - » Concept Maps for Selected Australian Political Blogs, Part I Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:31:25 +0000 http://gatewatching.org/2008/06/10/concept-maps-for-selected-australian-political-blogs-part-ii/#comment-820 [...] So, building on this corpus of blog post data, here are some preliminary observations. What I’ve done here in the first place is to run the concept mapping software Leximancer over the content gathered from a selection of key Australian blogs, to both fine-tune that process and see if any discernible differences between individual blogs emerge. I’ll present the results in two ways: one simply lists the key terms for each blog in order of frequency (giving a quick indication of what they’re frequently talking about), and the second maps these key terms in relation to one another - terms which frequently co-occur in close proximity to one another in the text are located closer to one another than terms which don’t, in other words. (I’ll post these maps later, in the second part of this post.) [...] [...] So, building on this corpus of blog post data, here are some preliminary observations. What I’ve done here in the first place is to run the concept mapping software Leximancer over the content gathered from a selection of key Australian blogs, to both fine-tune that process and see if any discernible differences between individual blogs emerge. I’ll present the results in two ways: one simply lists the key terms for each blog in order of frequency (giving a quick indication of what they’re frequently talking about), and the second maps these key terms in relation to one another - terms which frequently co-occur in close proximity to one another in the text are located closer to one another than terms which don’t, in other words. (I’ll post these maps later, in the second part of this post.) [...]

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