The projects of the Department of New Media Technology underscore the increasing potential of Geospatial Web technology, which integrates cartographic material with geotagged knowledge repositories and social network data.

• Information Diffusion across Interactive Online Media (www.idiom.at). Linguists define 'idiom' as an expression whose meaning is different from the literal meanings of its component words. Similarly, the study of information diffusion promises insights that cannot be inferred from individual network elements. Media monitoring projects often focus on a particular medium or neglect important aspects of the human language. The IDIOM project addresses these gaps to reveal fundamental mechanisms of information diffusion across the media with distinct interactive characteristics.
  
• US Election 2004 Web Monitor (www.ecoresearch.net/election2004). How do international media, the Fortune 1000 and environmental organizations tailor articles to fit their political agenda? To answer this question, the US Election 2004 Web Monitor processes more than 500,000 documents each week – about 125 million words in 11 million sentences. Estimates of attention and attitude towards the presidential candidates complement keywords summarizing key issues associated with each candidate.
  
• ECOresearch (www.ecoresearch.net). The interdisciplinary Research Network on Environmental Online Communication brings scientists of different backgrounds together to explore the development, management, promotion and evaluation of networked information systems that advocate sustainability and the protection of natural ecosystems. The network supports the research activities of its members, identifies synergies, coordinates the various projects and helps with resource acquisition.
  
• webLyzard (www.webLyzard.com). Built on more than five years of research into developing and managing Web-based information systems, the project analyzes navigational system and interface design from structural and textual perspectives. Web metrics aim to determine success factors and uncover weaknesses of deployed systems by comparing large samples of Web sites across regions and industries. Currently, webLyzard mirrors and analyzes a set of more than 6000 sites in monthly intervals.