I was reading your Case, the project sounded Interesting is there anywhere I can I more about the project. It sounds like something that could be useful for visualising data across several of my country web sites.
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I was reading your Case, the project sounded Interesting is there anywhere I can I more about the project. It sounds like something that could be useful for visualising data across several of my country web sites.
Thanks for the reply will look forward to reading more about your work in the future.
I had a look at r8yourpolitician.uk and you are already using a basic taxonomy ("Issues") to organize your users posts. The issues in your case are the themes in the comuno case. You can track and visualize who of your users are posting under what issues and how issues become more or less prominent over time. To express and visualize these relationships we used social network analysis (SNA). In the comuno case, we feeded data into the SNA tool "by hand". Of course for real-time visualization you want to automate the task, perhaps across your websites. This brings out the underlying *pattern* and how it changes over time. It does not "explain" anything, it just shows relationships. It is then up to the community to interpret the network graphs. The comuno case is part of a PhD-project that is being finalized now. So expect more information sometime in April, most likely under *Recent projects* at http://comuno.org/communities/cross/good-governance PS: I keep the group updated about availability of the full report
UPDATE 26-APR-09
DOWNLOAD LINK: Top-level decisions through public deliberation on the internet: Evidence from the evolution of Java governance
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