Lars Kirchhoff

Mapping the Australian Political Blogosphere (2009)

Bruns, Axel, Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Tracing change over time. Most existing blog network analyses use generic network crawlers to provide long-term pictures of interconnections in the blogosphere. While interesting in their own right,...

Mapping the Australian Political Blogosphere (2009)

Axel Bruns, Lars Kirchhoff, Thomas Nicolai

The blogosphere allows for the networked, decentralised, distributed discussion and deliberation on a wide range of topics. Based on their authors' interests, only a subset of all blogs will...

Monitoring the Australian Blogosphere through the 2007 Australian Federal Election (2009)

Thomas Nicolai, Lars Kirchhoff, Axel Bruns, Timothy J. Highfield

Mainstream and niche online media have played an important role in recent election campaigns both in Australia and abroad. The new US president's social network my.barackobama.com alone is reported...

Critical Voices in the Australian Political Blogosphere (2009)

Axel Bruns, Timothy J. Highfield, Lars Kirchhoff, Thomas Nicolai

This paper provides an update on an ongoing research project which maps and investigates the Australian political blogosphere, and expands on work presented at IR9.0 in Copenhagen (Bruns et al....

Monitoring the Australian Blogosphere through the 2007 Australian Federal Election (2009)

Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas, Bruns, Axel, Highfield, Timothy J.

This paper examines the observable patterns of content creation by Australian political bloggers dur‐ing the 2007 election and its aftermath, thereby providing insight into the level and nature of...

Mapping the Australian political blogosphere (2009)

Bruns, Axel, Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Network crawling and visualisation tools and other datamining systems are now advanced enough to provide significant new impulses to the study of cultural activity on the Web. A growing range of...

Monitoring the Australian Blogosphere through the 2007 Australian Federal Election (2009)

Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas, Bruns, Axel, Highfield, Timothy J.

This paper examines the observable patterns of content creation by Australian political bloggers dur‐ing the 2007 election and its aftermath, thereby providing insight into the level and nature of...

Mapping the Australian political blogosphere (2009)

Bruns, Axel, Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Network crawling and visualisation tools and other datamining systems are now advanced enough to provide significant new impulses to the study of cultural activity on the Web. A growing range of...

Monitoring the Australian Blogosphere through the 2007 Australian Federal Election (2009)

Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas, Bruns, Axel, Highfield, Timothy J.

This paper examines the observable patterns of content creation by Australian political bloggers dur‐ing the 2007 election and its aftermath, thereby providing insight into the level and nature of...

Mapping the Australian political blogosphere (2009)

Bruns, Axel, Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Network crawling and visualisation tools and other datamining systems are now advanced enough to provide significant new impulses to the study of cultural activity on the Web. A growing range of...

Discussion Paper: Network and Concept Maps for the Blogosphere (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J.

While qualitative evidence for the networked patterns of discussion, debate, and deliberation in the blogosphere is readily available, it is more difficult to establish a solid quantitative picture...

Discussion Paper: Network and Concept Maps for the Blogosphere (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J.

While qualitative evidence for the networked patterns of discussion, debate, and deliberation in the blogosphere is readily available, it is more difficult to establish a solid quantitative picture...

The HiveSurf Prototype Project- Application for a Ubiquitous Computing World (2008)

Thomas Nicolai, Florian Resatsch, Lars Kirchhoff

As a result of new opportunities for research in ubiquitous computing and digital communication, this project intends to make a substantial contribution into the scientific and practical discussions...

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: digital platform designing with native XPath enabled storage and retrieval on (2008)

Thomas Nicolai, Marc-frederic Schäfer, Lars Kirchhoff

Abstract: XML has become a standard for the exchange and retrieval of semistructured data between different platforms but is not currently a standard for storing semi-structured data in relational...

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Native XPath enabled storage and retrieval with MySQL (2008)

Thomas Nicolai, Marc-frederic Schäfer, Lars Kirchhoff

Abstract: XML has become a standard for the exchange and retrieval of data between different platforms but is not currently a standard in storing XML documents in relational databases. A standard...

determine the distribution of attention (2008)

Lars Kirchhoff, Bruns Thomas Nicolai

determine the distribution of attention. In Proceedings Association of

Locating the Australian Blogosphere: Towards a New Research Methodology (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written about the potential impact of the blogosphere on future patterns of global, national, and local public communication; blogs and other forms of distributed, networked, non-mass...

Google Yourself! Measuring the performance of personalized information resources (2008)

Nicolai, Thomas, Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J.

Narcissism is generally perceived as a growing social phenomenon in our society (Kopelman 1984; Mullins et al. 1984; Nelson 1977), as Lasch puts in his widely cited book "Culture of Narcissism"...

Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Australian political bloggers and citizen journalists appear to have played an important role in the 2007 federal elections. They provided a highly critical corrective to mainstream journalism,...

Bürgerjournalismus in der Berichterstattung zur Fussball Bundesliga (2008)

Matthes Fleck, Lars Kirchhoff, Miriam Meckel, Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva

Neben der professionellen Berichterstattung zur Fussball Bundesliga gibt es eine Reihe von privaten Informationsangeboten, die über die Geschehnisse in Deutschlands höchster Spielklasse berichten....

Google Yourself! Measuring the performance of personalized information resources (2008)

Thomas Nicolai, Lars Kirchhoff, Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, Barry Saunders

The practice described as »Self-Googling« can be seen as a form of narcissism, which may help to explain the phenomenon of people searching and browsing the Web for information about themselves....

Locating the Australian Blogosphere: Towards a New Research Methodology (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written about the potential impact of the blogosphere on future patterns of global, national, and local public communication; blogs and other forms of distributed, networked, non-mass...

Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 (2008)

Axel Bruns, Jason A. Wilson, Barry J. Saunders, Lars Kirchhoff, Thomas Nicolai

Australian political bloggers and citizen journalists appear to have played an important role in the campaign leading up to the 24 November 2007 federal election. They provided a highly critical...

Locating the Australian Blogosphere: Towards a New Research Methodology (2008)

Axel Bruns, Jason A. Wilson, Barry J. Saunders, Timothy J. Highfield, Lars Kirchhoff, Thomas Nicolai

Much has been written about the potential impact of the blogosphere on future patterns of global, national, and local public communication; blogs and other forms of distributed, networked, non-mass...

Using social network analysis to enhance information retrieval systems (2008)

Lars Kirchhoff, Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva, Thomas Nicolai, Matthes Fleck

It is an ongoing trend that people increasingly reveal very personal information on social network sites in particular and in the World Wide Web in general (Boyd & Ellison, 2007; Donath & Boyd, 2004;...

Discussion Paper: Network and Concept Maps for the Blogosphere (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J.

While qualitative evidence for the networked patterns of discussion, debate, and deliberation in the blogosphere is readily available, it is more difficult to establish a solid quantitative picture...

Folksonomy und Tags oder warum es im Web keine Regale gibt (2008)

Matthes Fleck, Lars Kirchhoff

Tags sind von Nutzern erstellte Metadaten, die das Verwalten und Teilen von Objekten im Internet erleichtern. Das Hinzufügen von Tags unterliegt keinen Regeln und auch keiner Form von...

Google Yourself! Measuring the performance of personalized information resources (2008)

Nicolai, Thomas, Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J.

Narcissism is generally perceived as a growing social phenomenon in our society (Kopelman 1984; Mullins et al. 1984; Nelson 1977), as Lasch puts in his widely cited book "Culture of Narcissism"...

Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Australian political bloggers and citizen journalists appear to have played an important role in the 2007 federal elections. They provided a highly critical corrective to mainstream journalism,...

Locating the Australian Blogosphere: Towards a New Research Methodology (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written about the potential impact of the blogosphere on future patterns of global, national, and local public communication; blogs and other forms of distributed, networked, non-mass...

Google Yourself! Measuring the performance of personalized information resources (2008)

Nicolai, Thomas, Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J.

Narcissism is generally perceived as a growing social phenomenon in our society (Kopelman 1984; Mullins et al. 1984; Nelson 1977), as Lasch puts in his widely cited book "Culture of Narcissism"...

Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Australian political bloggers and citizen journalists appear to have played an important role in the 2007 federal elections. They provided a highly critical corrective to mainstream journalism,...

Locating the Australian Blogosphere: Towards a New Research Methodology (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written about the potential impact of the blogosphere on future patterns of global, national, and local public communication; blogs and other forms of distributed, networked, non-mass...

Discussion Paper: Network and Concept Maps for the Blogosphere (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J.

While qualitative evidence for the networked patterns of discussion, debate, and deliberation in the blogosphere is readily available, it is more difficult to establish a solid quantitative picture...

Google Yourself! Measuring the performance of personalized information resources (2008)

Nicolai, Thomas, Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J.

Narcissism is generally perceived as a growing social phenomenon in our society (Kopelman 1984; Mullins et al. 1984; Nelson 1977), as Lasch puts in his widely cited book "Culture of Narcissism"...

Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Australian political bloggers and citizen journalists appear to have played an important role in the 2007 federal elections. They provided a highly critical corrective to mainstream journalism,...

Locating the Australian Blogosphere: Towards a New Research Methodology (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written about the potential impact of the blogosphere on future patterns of global, national, and local public communication; blogs and other forms of distributed, networked, non-mass...

Discussion Paper: Network and Concept Maps for the Blogosphere (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J.

While qualitative evidence for the networked patterns of discussion, debate, and deliberation in the blogosphere is readily available, it is more difficult to establish a solid quantitative picture...

Google Yourself! Measuring the performance of personalized information resources (2008)

Nicolai, Thomas, Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J.

Narcissism is generally perceived as a growing social phenomenon in our society (Kopelman 1984; Mullins et al. 1984; Nelson 1977), as Lasch puts in his widely cited book "Culture of Narcissism"...

Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Australian political bloggers and citizen journalists appear to have played an important role in the 2007 federal elections. They provided a highly critical corrective to mainstream journalism,...

Locating the Australian Blogosphere: Towards a New Research Methodology (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written about the potential impact of the blogosphere on future patterns of global, national, and local public communication; blogs and other forms of distributed, networked, non-mass...

Discussion Paper: Network and Concept Maps for the Blogosphere (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J.

While qualitative evidence for the networked patterns of discussion, debate, and deliberation in the blogosphere is readily available, it is more difficult to establish a solid quantitative picture...

Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Australian political bloggers and citizen journalists appear to have played an important role in the 2007 federal elections. They provided a highly critical corrective to mainstream journalism,...

Locating the Australian Blogosphere: Towards a New Research Methodology (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written about the potential impact of the blogosphere on future patterns of global, national, and local public communication; blogs and other forms of distributed, networked, non-mass...

Discussion Paper: Network and Concept Maps for the Blogosphere (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J.

While qualitative evidence for the networked patterns of discussion, debate, and deliberation in the blogosphere is readily available, it is more difficult to establish a solid quantitative picture...

Google Yourself! Measuring the performance of personalized information resources (2008)

Nicolai, Thomas, Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J.

Narcissism is generally perceived as a growing social phenomenon in our society (Kopelman 1984; Mullins et al. 1984; Nelson 1977), as Lasch puts in his widely cited book "Culture of Narcissism"...

Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Australian political bloggers and citizen journalists appear to have played an important role in the 2007 federal elections. They provided a highly critical corrective to mainstream journalism,...

Locating the Australian Blogosphere: Towards a New Research Methodology (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written about the potential impact of the blogosphere on future patterns of global, national, and local public communication; blogs and other forms of distributed, networked, non-mass...

Discussion Paper: Network and Concept Maps for the Blogosphere (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J.

While qualitative evidence for the networked patterns of discussion, debate, and deliberation in the blogosphere is readily available, it is more difficult to establish a solid quantitative picture...

Google Yourself! Measuring the performance of personalized information resources (2008)

Nicolai, Thomas, Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J.

Narcissism is generally perceived as a growing social phenomenon in our society (Kopelman 1984; Mullins et al. 1984; Nelson 1977), as Lasch puts in his widely cited book "Culture of Narcissism"...

Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Australian political bloggers and citizen journalists appear to have played an important role in the 2007 federal elections. They provided a highly critical corrective to mainstream journalism,...

Investigating the impact of the blogosphere: Using PageRank to determine the distribution of attention (2007)

Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written in recent years about the blogosphere and its impact on political, educational and scientific debates. Lately the issue has received significant attention from the industry. As...

Investigating the impact of the blogosphere: Using PageRank to determine the distribution of attention (2007)

Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written in recent years about the blogosphere and its impact onpolitical, educational and scientific debates. Lately the issue has received significantattention from the industry. As...

Why do corporations favour special interest topics for their blog experiments? (2007)

Matthes Fleck, Lars Kirchhoff, Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva

Past studies on weblogs and the blogosphere have indicated that reputation building is one of the most important motivation for individual bloggers. In our research we argue that corporations should...

Investigating the Impact of the Blogosphere: Using PageRank to Determine the Distribution of Attention (2007)

Lars Kirchhoff, Axel Bruns, Thomas Nicolai

Much has been written in recent years about the blogosphere and its impact on political, educational and scientific debates. Lately the issue has received significant attention from the industry. As...

Web 2.0 und SOA – verwandte Konzepte? (2007)

Christoph Schroth, Lars Kirchhoff

Eine neue Klasse von Internetapplikationen wie interaktive Enzyklopädien, Blogs oder auch sogenannte Mashups hat während der letzten Jahre große Verbreitung gefunden und wird oft unter dem Begriff...

Einsatzmöglichkeiten von Blogs in der Unternehmenskommunikation (2007)

Matthes Fleck, Lars Kirchhoff, Miriam Meckel, Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva

Weblogs haben sich in den vergangenen Jahren zu einem wertvollen und wichtigen Instrument innerhalb der Unternehmenskommunikation entwickelt. Eine Vielzahl wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen und zahllose...

Typologien von Blogs in der Unternehmenskommunikation (2007)

Matthes Fleck, Lars Kirchhoff, Miriam Meckel, Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva

Kommunikationsplattformen der 'Netzwerkgesellschaft' sind vor allem Weblogs, welche ein eigenständiges Format in der neuen Kommunikationsmatrix der Netzwerkgesellschaft darstellen. Ihre Inhalte sind...

Applications of Blogs in Corporate Communication (2007)

Matthes Fleck, Lars Kirchhoff, Miriam Meckel, Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva

Recently, blogs have gained a lot of attention as an instrument within corporate communication. There are numerous discussions and research projects in various academic disciplines about blogs...

Investigating the impact of the blogosphere: Using PageRank to determine the distribution of attention (2007)

Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written in recent years about the blogosphere and its impact on political, educational and scientific debates. Lately the issue has received significant attention from the industry. As...

Investigating the impact of the blogosphere: Using PageRank to determine the distribution of attention (2007)

Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written in recent years about the blogosphere and its impact on political, educational and scientific debates. Lately the issue has received significant attention from the industry. As...

Investigating the impact of the blogosphere: Using PageRank to determine the distribution of attention (2007)

Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written in recent years about the blogosphere and its impact on political, educational and scientific debates. Lately the issue has received significant attention from the industry. As...

Investigating the impact of the blogosphere: Using PageRank to determine the distribution of attention (2007)

Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written in recent years about the blogosphere and its impact on political, educational and scientific debates. Lately the issue has received significant attention from the industry. As...

Investigating the impact of the blogosphere: Using PageRank to determine the distribution of attention (2007)

Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written in recent years about the blogosphere and its impact on political, educational and scientific debates. Lately the issue has received significant attention from the industry. As...

Investigating the impact of the blogosphere: Using PageRank to determine the distribution of attention (2007)

Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written in recent years about the blogosphere and its impact on political, educational and scientific debates. Lately the issue has received significant attention from the industry. As...

Investigating the impact of the blogosphere: using PageRank to determine the distribution of attention (2007)

Lars Kirchhoff, Axel Bruns, Thomas Nicolai

Much has been written in recent years about the blogosphere and its impact on political, educational and scientific debates. Lately the issue has received significant attention from the industry. As...

Investigating the impact of the blogosphere: Using PageRank to determine the distribution of attention (2007)

Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written in recent years about the blogosphere and its impact on political, educational and scientific debates. Lately the issue has received significant attention from the industry. As...

The HiveSurf Prototype Project - Application for a Ubiquitous Computing World (2006)

Thomas Nicolai, Florian Resatsch, Lars Kirchhoff

As a result of new opportunities for research in ubiquitous computing and digital communication, this project intends to make a substantial contribution into the scientific and practical discussions...

HiveSurf: Breaking the Classification of Natural Landscapes (2006)

Thomas Nicolai, Florian Resatsch, Lars Kirchhoff

As a result of new opportunities for research in digital communication and ubiquitous computing, the presented prototype project intends to make a substantial contribution into the scientific and...

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: digital platform designing with native XPath enabled storage and retrieval on MySQL (2006)

Thomas Nicolai, Marc Schäfer, Lars Kirchhoff

XML has become a standard for the exchange and retrieval of semi-structured data between different platforms but is not currently a standard for storing semi-structured data in relational databases....

Webservices als Basistechnologie für den Informationsverkauf im Internet (2004)

Lars Kirchhoff

Über eine Analyse von Informationsprodukten und des Informationsmarktes werden Anforderungsparameter definiert, welche für die Anwendung und Implementierung einer Web Service Architektur zum...