[Air-L] political web sites

[Dave Karpf]

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 at 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 at 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 at gmail.com
>>
>>
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