1. Media tools
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2. Two types of mediated communication
Media tools
 Digitized versions of radio and television
 Materials published on the internet
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3. Why and what?
Radio, Television and Internet
 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
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4. Digital Humanities? Digital physics, printed humanities?
Digital humanities?
 Digital physics? Oral Humanities? Printed
Humanities? Televised humanities?
 Humanities concerned with a growing variety of
differently materialised cultural expressions, digital
ones included?
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5. The computer and digital media
The computer and IT dissolved into 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
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6. The NetLab project
What is NetLab?
 A research infrastructure project for the study of
internet materials
 Research-driven projects
 Make the internet research infrastructure available to
scholars from other disciplines
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7. Digital materials
Digital research infrastructures
 The material to be analyzed in a digital form
 The digital tools to analyze the material and to
convey the result
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8. Digital materials
Digitized
Previously analog material which has been digitized.
Born-digital
Has never existed in any other form than digital.
Reborn-digital
Born-digital material which has been collected and preserved, and
which to some degree has been changed in this process.
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9. Four illustrations
What could a research driven development of an
internet research infrastructure look like?
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10. A net archive corpus for education, learning, and training
Restricted access to the internet archive
 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…☹
Corpus for
training
Open for the public?
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11. Network Analysis of the Danish parliamentary Elections 2007-2011
Network Analysis on the Web
 Analysis of hyperlinks
 Centrality is a function of the number of in-links
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12. Network Analysis of the Danish parliamentary Elections 2007-2011
Network of Parliamentary members, 28 August 2011
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13. Network Analysis of the Danish parliamentary Elections 2007-2011
Network of Parliamentary members, 15 Sept. 2011
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14. The internet of the Danes 2009
The favourite websites of the Danes
 A survey made in 2009
 The long tail: the 50 most visited sites represent less
than 5% of the sites mentioned as favourites
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15. The internet of the Danes 2009
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16. The internet of the Danes 2009
How to see the favourite websites of 2009?
 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
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17. Digital Footprints
How to study private material shared by
internet users, for instance on Facebook?
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18. 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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