The document discusses how the internet impacts politics through its history, features, and case studies. It provides context on how domain names are organized and governed. Key features that influence politics are interactivity, open publishing, and new developments like social media. Case studies show how groups have bypassed traditional media and organized protests online. Political parties now use the internet for information, but most innovation still comes from non-government groups. The internet has opened access to political information and set agendas, changing how politics operates in our digital age.
Danish Institute for Study Abroad
Communications:
New Media and Changing Communities
Dublin Visit
Tracey P. Lauriault
NIRSA Seminar Room
National University of Ireland Maynooth
2nd April 2015
Assessing inter-cultural patterns through ranking biographiesBiographiesPablo Aragón
Wikipedia is a huge global repository of human knowledge that can be leveraged to investigate interwinements between cultures. With this aim, we apply methods of Markov chains and Google matrix for the analysis of the hyperlink networks of 24 Wikipedia language editions, and rank all their articles by PageRank, 2DRank and CheiRank algorithms. Using automatic extraction of people names, we obtain the top 100 historical figures, for each edition and for each algorithm. We investigate their spatial, temporal, and gender distributions in dependence of their cultural origins. Our study demonstrates not only the existence of skewness with local figures, mainly recognized only in their own cultures, but also the existence of global historical figures appearing in a large number of editions. By determining the birth time and place of these persons, we perform an analysis of the evolution of such figures through 35 centuries of human history for each language, thus recovering interactions and entanglement of cultures over time. We also obtain the distributions of historical figures over world countries, highlighting geographical aspects of cross-cultural links. Considering historical figures who appear in multiple editions as interactions between cultures, we construct a network of cultures and identify the most influential cultures according to this network.
Linked Open Data en Wikidata - Erfgoed Gelderland 19 januari 2018Sandra Fauconnier
Workshop voor symposium Open-Up! bij Erfgoed Gelderland, Arnhem, 19 januari 2018 http://erfgoedgelderland.nl/wat-doen-we/symposium-open-up-wikimedia-en-erfgoed/
Online Petitioning Through Data Exploration and What We Found There: A Datase...Pablo Aragón
Dataset paper presented at ICWSM-18:
The Internet has become a fundamental resource for activism as it facilitates political mobilization at a global scale. Petition platforms are a clear example of how thousands of people around the world can contribute to social change. Avaaz.org, with a presence in over 200 countries, is one of the most popular of this type. However, little research has focused on this platform, probably due to a lack of available data.
In this work we retrieved more than 350K petitions, standardized their field values, and added new information using language detection and named-entity recognition. To motivate future research with this unique repository of global protest, we present a first exploration of the dataset. In particular, we examine how social media campaigning is related to the success of petitions, as well as some geographic and linguistic findings about the worldwide community of Avaaz.org. We conclude with example research questions that could be addressed with our dataset.
Danish Institute for Study Abroad
Communications:
New Media and Changing Communities
Dublin Visit
Tracey P. Lauriault
NIRSA Seminar Room
National University of Ireland Maynooth
2nd April 2015
Assessing inter-cultural patterns through ranking biographiesBiographiesPablo Aragón
Wikipedia is a huge global repository of human knowledge that can be leveraged to investigate interwinements between cultures. With this aim, we apply methods of Markov chains and Google matrix for the analysis of the hyperlink networks of 24 Wikipedia language editions, and rank all their articles by PageRank, 2DRank and CheiRank algorithms. Using automatic extraction of people names, we obtain the top 100 historical figures, for each edition and for each algorithm. We investigate their spatial, temporal, and gender distributions in dependence of their cultural origins. Our study demonstrates not only the existence of skewness with local figures, mainly recognized only in their own cultures, but also the existence of global historical figures appearing in a large number of editions. By determining the birth time and place of these persons, we perform an analysis of the evolution of such figures through 35 centuries of human history for each language, thus recovering interactions and entanglement of cultures over time. We also obtain the distributions of historical figures over world countries, highlighting geographical aspects of cross-cultural links. Considering historical figures who appear in multiple editions as interactions between cultures, we construct a network of cultures and identify the most influential cultures according to this network.
Linked Open Data en Wikidata - Erfgoed Gelderland 19 januari 2018Sandra Fauconnier
Workshop voor symposium Open-Up! bij Erfgoed Gelderland, Arnhem, 19 januari 2018 http://erfgoedgelderland.nl/wat-doen-we/symposium-open-up-wikimedia-en-erfgoed/
Online Petitioning Through Data Exploration and What We Found There: A Datase...Pablo Aragón
Dataset paper presented at ICWSM-18:
The Internet has become a fundamental resource for activism as it facilitates political mobilization at a global scale. Petition platforms are a clear example of how thousands of people around the world can contribute to social change. Avaaz.org, with a presence in over 200 countries, is one of the most popular of this type. However, little research has focused on this platform, probably due to a lack of available data.
In this work we retrieved more than 350K petitions, standardized their field values, and added new information using language detection and named-entity recognition. To motivate future research with this unique repository of global protest, we present a first exploration of the dataset. In particular, we examine how social media campaigning is related to the success of petitions, as well as some geographic and linguistic findings about the worldwide community of Avaaz.org. We conclude with example research questions that could be addressed with our dataset.
Democracy - an operating system for the peopleHåkon Skramstad
This presentation serves as a high level theoretical introduction to the subject of democracy and digital media. The presentation takes a look at the idea of democracy and how it works in modern society. It then progresses to introduce a thesis about democracy being an operating system for the people. Building on this thesis, it aims to reveal seven criteria for democratic services. Towards the end, the presentation approaches a conceptual framework for a solution to the problems identified earlier.
This talk was originally presented in Norwegian at the Yggdrasil Conference for 2008. It has also been presented at various other occasions. The slides have been translated from Norwegian to English.
Please see slide notes.
Democracy - an operating system for the peopleHåkon Skramstad
This presentation serves as a high level theoretical introduction to the subject of democracy and digital media. The presentation takes a look at the idea of democracy and how it works in modern society. It then progresses to introduce a thesis about democracy being an operating system for the people. Building on this thesis, it aims to reveal seven criteria for democratic services. Towards the end, the presentation approaches a conceptual framework for a solution to the problems identified earlier.
This talk was originally presented in Norwegian at the Yggdrasil Conference for 2008. It has also been presented at various other occasions. The slides have been translated from Norwegian to English.
Please see slide notes.
C.P John, politician from Kerala, India, talks about how the process of political change is affected in the digital age and by the advent of websites like wikileaks, twitter, facebook etc
1. Internet meets society
New media new politics?
“Information is the currency of democracy” Thomas Jefferson
Dr Craig Bellamy
VeRSI, University of Melbourne , 9 Aug, 2010
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3. Key Issues
Why is the web important for politics (history)
What are its political features?
How does politics work in a ‘Web 1.0’ and ‘Web
2.0? (case studies)
4. History
A post apocalyptic command grid
The domain name system (DNS)
5. Internet Governance: DNS and
ICANN
What is DNS (Domain Name System)
The Domain Name System (abbreviated DNS) is an Internet directory
service. DNS is how domain names are translated into web addresses , and
DNS also controls email delivery. If your computer cannot access DNS,
your web browser will not be able to find web sites, and you will not be able
to receive or send email etc.
What is ICANN (Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers)
6. Why is the Internet Political?
Interactivity
Open publishing
Recent developments, RSS feeds, pod casting,
twitter, facebook, open data…
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8. How does the Internet impact
upon the politics?
Setting the agenda in other media
9. Specific Case Studies
www.S11.org (s11 protests sep. 2000)
realjeff.com (1999 Victorian State Elections)
EngageMedia
G20 Protest’s London
Major parties
(archived sites can be found on ‘the Wayback Machine”
www.archive.org
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/ (Australia)
11. Realjeff.com
(archived at the National Libraries Pandora Project)
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/nph-arch/1999/Z1999-Sep-
24/http://www.realjeff.com/index.htm
Used the tactic of ‘riding on the back’ of the publicity of
www.jeff.com
during the 1999 Victorian State Election
The alternative site perhaps gained more publicity than the
authentic site
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17. How are the major parties using
the Internet?
www.alp.org.au
www.liberal.org.au
www.greens.org.au
18. Concluding Comments
Internet first true interactive media. Interactivity
all is’ an underlying principle of the Internet
(that must be preserved).
The Internet has dramatically opened up
access to political information (Hansards, press
releases, newspapers, speeches, party
policies, etc.)
Arguably the major broadcasting companies
and governments have done very little in terms
of innovation on the network (government is
usually about downloading forms etc.) most
political-communication innovation may be
coming from non-government groups