The Observatorium

Real-time monitoring of multi-level network structures for the study of knowledge generation and opinion dynamics in the Internet


Home | Motivation | Team | Software | Documents | Videos | News | In the press | Contact

Research: Newspapers | Politics | Science | Economy


Following the portuguese Private Copy Levy

Date: Jan 6, 2012

Portugal is preparing a new levy on Private Copy. The discussion has stirred social networks and the hashtag #pl118 as been used to track the conversation online. We decided to create a simple timeline of the live conversation that is happening in twitter and created a page where the information is constantly updated.

Twitter Timeline for #pl118

Newspapers Gathered This Month

The Observatorium gathers a set of on-line newspappers from arround the world to take the pulse of news.


Figure showing the number of news items provided by some of the on-line newspapers observed this month.



The Observatorium is a project running at ISCTE-IUL with the support of the Master and Doctoral Programs in Complexity Sciences.