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THE CENTRE FOR INTERNET STUDIES

Niels Ole Finnemann & Niels BrüggerNetLab

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Media tools



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Two types of mediated communication

Digitized versions of radio and television

Materials published on the internet

Media tools



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Important parts of 20th and 21st centuries cultural heritage

Digitized Radio and TV archives allow both broader public use and an array of new research methods — headed by Associate Professor Per Jauert

Internet materials need to be archived ’on the fly’

Digital archives are goldmines, which call for new methods

Radio, Television and Internet

Why and what?



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Digital Humanities? Digital physics, printed humanities?

Digital physics? Oral Humanities? Printed Humanities? Televised humanities?

Humanities concerned with a growing variety of differently materialised cultural expressions, digital ones included?

Digital humanities?



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The computer and digital media

Different kinds of digital devices, architectures and interfaces

Developed to and used for all sorts of social, cultural an political purposes

By human beings, citizens, and professional experts from all disciplines, all sorts of institutions and areas in society

The computer and IT dissolved into digital media



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A research infrastructure project for the study of internet materials

Research-driven projects

Make the internet research infrastructure available to scholars from other disciplines

What is NetLab?

The NetLab project



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Digital materials

The material to be analyzed in a digital form

The digital tools to analyze the material and to convey the result

Digital research infrastructures



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Digital materials

DigitizedPreviously analog material which has been digitized.

Born-digitalHas never existed in any other form than digital.

Reborn-digitalBorn-digital material which has been collected and preserved, and which to some degree has been changed in this process.



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Four illustrations

What could a research driven development of an internet research infrastructure look like?



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A net archive corpus for education, learning, and training

A corpus for students to allow for learning, training, studying and recruitment of future researchers. ☺

The alternative: To send Danish students abroad to learn the methods…☹

Restricted access to the internet archive

Corpus fortraining

Open for the public?



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Network Analysis of the Danish parliamentary Elections 2007-2011

Analysis of hyperlinks

Centrality is a function of the number of in-links

Network Analysis on the Web



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Network of Parliamentary members, 28 August 2011



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Network of Parliamentary members, 15 Sept. 2011



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The internet of the Danes 2009

A survey made in 2009

The long tail: the 50 most visited sites represent less than 5% of the sites mentioned as favourites

The favourite websites of the Danes



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Favourite sites

No. of respondents

No. of sites



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The only place to see the content of the preferred websites is netarkivet.dk

Test the netarchive in several respects

Analyse the favourite patterns

Develop methods and add to a permanent research infrastructure

How to see the favourite websites of 2009?



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Digital Footprints

How to study private material shared by internet users, for instance on Facebook?



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Digital Footprints

easy to use tool fetch closed Facebook data with user consent search, sort, and filter the material

map and discuss questions about privacy and research ethics

By Anja Bechmann & Peter Vahlstrup

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net lab Theme 2 DIGHUMLAB Launch 10 September 2012:1315