Digital Methods: Projects By Theme

The following are current and finished projects, organized by theme. Some are sample projects in the Digital Methods Course.

Digital Objects

• Indexing Issues for the Blogosphere (No_follow tag)
• The History of the (two-way) Link
• The Politics of PDF: Politicians and their Digital Formats
• Tagging Spaces: Exploring Popular and Related Tags
• Alternative Algorithms: The IP Browser (Govcom.org Jubilee Project)

The Site

• Long Tail Politics? Niche Merchandise in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections
  
• The Demise of the Directory: Web librarian work removed in Google
  

The Ordering Device

• Climate Change Skeptics: How far are they from the 'top' of the Web?
• How to Scrape (Commentary on Open Kapow)

The Spheres

• Election Issue Imagery
  
• Issue Animals
• WebAntenne (Completed as Issue Feed)
• Studying Software: Discovering Geographical Issue Distance (Govcom.org Jubilee Project)

The Webs

• National Web Condition + Diagnostics
• Diagnosing the Condition of Iraq: The Web View (Continued in National Webs Project; see also the tool http://generatenational.net)
• Cyber Lands (Govcom.org Jubilee Project)

Post-demographics and Social Networking Sites

• Scraping Brands
• Localizing Hyves Networks: Sample Study and Tool Proposal
• Elfriendo (notes compiled in preparation for the Elfriendo project may be found under Space for People)

Networked Content and Wikipedia

• Repurposing the Wikiscanner (see project summary on the Masters of Media blog)
• Networked Content: Wikipedia Bots, Software Assisted Users and the Space of Edits (Govcom.org Jubilee Project)

Mapping Controversies

• How the Climate Change Skeptics Got Organized
• Green Home in the Carbon Economy
• Climate Change Skeptics and their Issues
• Mapping Future Histories of RFID

Project Proposals

• Personalized Search, or creating a Google feedback loop
• Evaluation of Political Websites in the Netherlands over time
• Palestinian Governmental Websites Before and After Hamas Came to Power