Tag Archives: elections

Interview met Reinder Rustema: Nieuwe Media & Politiek

Floris Spronk | 25 October 2011, 10:40 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , ,

Voor veel studenten Nieuwe Media aan de UvA is Reinder Rustema geen onbekende. Naast het doceren aan de UvA is Rustema een oudgediende op het vlak van Nieuwe Media en politiek. Zo maakte hij ooit deel uit van De Digitale Stad, schreef tientallen politieke opinieartikelen, was zelf verkiesbaar en beheert hij sites als

Truthy: Policing Misinformation, One Meme-ing Tweet At a Time

Ekaterina Yudin | 18 October 2010, 12:17 am | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

“Swiftboaters beware!”

The battle to control Congress is on and this election year the truth is about to get Truthier. Twitter – the social media network, twenty-four-hour news site, conversation and blogging platform, wedding and death announcement site, gossip patrol, and the general online information center that…

Wikipedia Edit Wars: The Web Encyclopedia as a Political Battleground

Thomas Wielemaker | 21 September 2009, 12:32 pm | tags: , , ,

The United States is a vast expanse of landscape in which millions of people hold a myriad of differing opinions. Due to its open editing policy, many of these opinions have found their way on to Wikipedia. With high internet penetration statistics and its origins in the US, Wikipedia has exploded over the last eight years. The statistics on the…

Blocked in Iran: Follow-up on Armenian Bloggers

Marijn de Vries Hoogerwerff | 17 June 2009, 7:06 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , ,

Using the data and proxies from the Internet training workshop held at the Caucasus Institute, I did some additional checking and found http://www.havadaran.net/ and http://jomhoriyat.com/ also have been blocked, but accessible from Amsterdam. These URLs are found on the Mir Hossein Mousavi facebook website list in his profile (itself also blocked), and seem to be supporting…

Vriendjespolitiek.net: research into post-demographics

Erik Borra | 11 June 2008, 12:44 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Since 1998, and on paper since 1989 (Stemwijzer 2008), general elections in the Netherlands have spawned a variety of so called voting recommendation machines. These systems typically ask the user to answer some questions after which they offer the user a voting recommendation, based on the compatibility between his or her answers and the political parties. The questions are…