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Digitale methoden en tools
voor datajournalistiek
Anne Helmond, PhD bij het Digital Methods
Initiative, Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Hacking Journalism @SETUP, Utrecht 23 maart 2011
The Digital Methods Initiative is a contribution to
doing research into the "natively digital" where the
focus is on how methods may change, however
slightly or wholesale, owing to the technical
specificities of new media.
nieuwe methoden en tools
voor cultureel en sociaal
onderzoek met het web
digital methods initiative tool database:
tools.digitalmethods.net
digital methods initiative tool database:
tools.digitalmethods.net
research question -> operationalization &
method: often a chain of tools
cablegate
Question: Do the sources acknowledge cablegate?
The Response of the Source
1. Get all links for US embassy websites:
http://www.usembassy.gov/
2. Compile list of embassies mentioned in
cables: http://wikileaks.ch/cablegate.html
3. Compare lists
4. Query mentioned embassies for: wikileaks
"Julian Assange"
Assange
cablegate
5. Get number of cables per embassy
6. Visualize output
aim: get links
tool: link ripper
result: links!
repeat & paste in spreadsheet
aim: get mentioned
us embassies in cables
tool: compare lists
aim: get #nr mentions
tool: googlescraper
result: tagclouds
aim: get most leaked embassy
tool: build on leakfeed API
further analysis
mapping the dutch blogosphere
tool: issuecrawler
tool: issuecrawler
result: map
the historical dutch blogosphere
NL Blogosphere
deceased blogs
tool: linkrippertool: URL responder
A2K Network Geography, April 2007. Data by the Issuecrawler. Visualization by the Issuegeographer. Annotated southern organizations and places.
tool: issuegeographer
tool: wikipedia bot edits scraper
tool: dorling map generator
#iranelectionproject by Esther Weltevrede et al.
tool: twitterscraper
censorship explorer
anne@digitalmethods.net
kthnxbai!
tool wizzard: erik borra
kthxbai!
www.digitalmethods.netanne@digitalmethods.net
tool wizzard: erik borra