A few days ago Malte Krohn [@malte_politicus] from the blog Homo Politicus interviewed me on the state of the CDU online campaign in Nordrhein-Westfalen which I advise on their use of online tools. This is the result:
If you are interested in the campaign, I also wrote about it here, here and here.
This sunday I participated in the workshop Microblogging: What and How Can We Learn Form It? at CHI 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. During the workshop I presented my position paper Twitter in Politics: Lessons Learned during the German Superwahljahr 2009 in an ignite talk.
The workshop was organized by Julia H. Grace [@jewelia], Dejin Zhao [@djzaho] [...]
Next Sunday I will participate in one of the workshops leading up to this year’s CHI 2010 in Atlanta, Georgia. The workshop is called Microblogging: What and How Can We Learn From It. It is organized by Julia H. Grace [@jewelia], Dejin Zhao [@djzhao] and danah boyd [@zephoria]. The position papers for the workshop are [...]
Am Rande des Politcamp 2010 gaben Oliver Zeisberger [@oliverbarracuda] und ich Vera Kämper [@vera_k] von Der Westen ein Interview zum aktuellen Stand der Onlinekampagnen in Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Oliver Zeisberger betreut mit seiner Agentur den Onlinewahlkampf der NRW SPD während ich das Onlineunterstützerteam der CDU Nordrhein-Westfalen NRW für Rüttgers berate.
Unsere Präsenz beim Politcamp 2010 scheint übrigens auch vom [...]
Again to the archives, again a paper on Twitter: Twittering Activists: the Uses of Twitter for Political Activism. This is actually the first paper that I presented at a scientific conference, organised by the SFB Changing Protest and Media Cultures SFB/FK 615 Media Upheavals at the University of Siegen in late 2008. For a short [...]
For a second trip to the back catalogue have a look at Twittering Dissent: Social Web Data Streams as Basis for Agent Based Models of Opinion Dynamics. A paper that Pascal Jürgens presented in Vienna, Austria in early 2009.
For the gist of the paper have a look at the presentation:
Twittering Dissent
In this paper we build [...]
The quiet days at the end of any semester are great for side projects. So for this semester I decided to go through my back catalogue of presentations and publications and make some of them available on this site. Today I’ll start with a poster from 2008 which Pascal Jürgens and I presented at the [...]
This feels a bit like old news. But who says information has a sell-by-date?
In November Christoph Bieber, Martin Eifert, Thomas Groß and Jörn Lamla published the book “Soziale Netze in der digitalen Welt” to which I contributed a chapter on the political uses of Twitter. And the first reviews are in:
Jochen Zenthöfer for politik-digital.de: Wer [...]
Drinking from the Firehose: Why Obama Should Stay the Hell Off Twitter
Colin Delany [@epolitics] gives an interesting perspective on the question whether leading politicians should use Twitter:
But I’d also argue that Twitter is fundamentally a bad match for a Chief Executive, for exactly the same reasons that so many other people are drawn to it. [...]
Klaus-Peter Schöppner: „Partei der Mitte“: Der Chancentod der CDU
An interesting analysis of the state of things for the CDU before the German election campaign 2009.
Henry Farrell: Political scientists in public debate
This is a nice conversation starter about the roles political scientists should play in the public discourse about politics.
Joshua-Michele Ross: The Rise Of The Social [...]