EDV’s Principal Investigator, Prof Stephen Coleman, was interviewed yesterday by Martha Kearney for BBC Radio 4’s World at One. As political parties and broadcaster negotiate this year’s election debates, Prof Coleman explained how and why voters feel entitled to full televised debates between the party leaders. Listen to the interview below or follow this link.
Starting next week, the EDV team at the OU will grow a bit larger. Alberto Ardito, from Politecnico of Bari, will joins us for three months to work on the development Democratic Replay over the busy period leading up to the UK 2015 General Election. Alberto’s tasks will aim at taking the current prototype […]
Last Thursday 16 October, Leeds’ Political Communication and the OU team members presented EDV at a Political Communication Research Group seminar in the School of Media and Communication of the University of Leeds. Details of the event and links to the slides are available below. Election Debate Visualisation Project This event took place on 16th […]
On Monday 29 and Tuesday 30 September, EDV joined the Workshop on Collective Intelligence for the Common Good held at The Open University’s London Campus. The workshop was chaired by EDV members Anna De Liddo and Simon Buckingham Shum, Doug Schuler (Evergreen State College & The Public Sphere Project), Fiorella De Cindio (University of Milan) […]
We have released the first three issues of a a series of project briefings, intended to disseminate different aspects of our research to a general audience. Briefing 2014.01 describes the findings of focus group research into voters’ thoughts, concerns and desires in connection with televised election debates. Briefing 2014.02 presents our vision on how technology can […]
Design has a role in working for the ‘common good’, playing a significant part in our engagement with the world and, within the Election Debate Visualisation project, working to translate data into compelling, engaging and illuminating stories. The design thread within the project has begun to investigate visual methods for rapid and semiotically-holistic feedback, and is […]
Earlier this month, EDV joined the SICSA Workshop on Argument Mining 2014 held at the Centre for Argument Technology of the University of Dundee, Scotland. The focus of the meeting was on the semi-automatic and automatic extraction of arguments from unstructured natural language text from the perspective of information extraction, information retrieval and computational linguistics. The […]
The OU team presented EDV at a seminar in KMi last Thursday 19 June. Details of the event, a podcast and links to the slides are available below. The Election Debate Visualisation (EDV) Project This event took place on 19th June 2014 at 11:30am Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, UK Simon Buckingham Shum, Anna […]
Some of the analyses and visualisations that we aim at including as enhancements to the debate viewing experience are already available to viewers. In a previous post, we referred to Demos‘s analysis of tweets in terms of the personality and politics of the Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage in the second EU debate. As another example, Blurrt performed real-time sentiment […]