Research Projects | New Media Technology

The projects of the Department of New Media Technology underscore the increasing potential of Geospatial Web technology [1], which integrates cartographic material with geotagged knowledge repositories and social network data.

Current Projects

• Triple-C - Climate Change Collaboratory. The Triple-C project aims to strengthen the relations between Austrian scientists, policy makers, educators, environmental NGOs, news media and corporations - stakeholders who recognize the need for adaptation and mitigation, but differ in worldviews, goals and agendas. The collaboratory manages expert knowledge and provides a platform for effective communication and collaboration.
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• Media Watch on Climate Change. To increase awareness and the availability of environmental information, this project provides a comprehensive and continuously updated account of online media coverage on climate change and related issues. The portal aggregates, filters and visualizes environmental content from the Web sites of various stakeholders: 150 Anglo-American news media sites, blogs, environmental organizations, and the Fortune 1000 companies. Winner of the Digital Earth 3D Visualization Challenge 2007, held in conjunction with the 5th International Symposium on Digital Earth (www.isde5.org [3]).
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• Sentiment Quiz. Sentiment Quiz is an interactive real-time quiz in the tradition of games with a purpose. The multi-platform social media application is available for Facebook [5] and as a widget for iGoogle [6] and Netvibes [7]. Together with Election Monitor 2008, Sentiment Quiz won the Social Media Category of the Austrian National Award for Multimedia and e-Business [8].
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• ECOresearch. 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.
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• webLyzard . 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.
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Completed Projects

• Information Diffusion across Interactive Online Media. 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.
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• US Election 2004 Web Monitor . 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.
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• ECOresearch. 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.
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