Thursday, January 10, 2008

The 2007 Australian Federal Election on the Internet

This paper, by Edgar Crook, Senior Librarian Web Archiving Section, at the National Library of Australia, discusses the use of the Internet in the election, and outlines some of the challenges associated with archiving the associated internet sites.
The internet tools used included web sites (eg parties, newspapers), online videos, YouTube, FaceBook and MySpace.
There is also a comparison of how, and how effectively, the different parties used the internet.

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