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Social Media at the Asian Cup: The Inside View
The AFC Asian Cup kicked off last Friday with a big crowd in Melbourne and the Socceroos setting a great vibe for the tournament, beating Kuwait 4-1. I arrived in Sydney on Sunday afternoon after the...
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Introducing the New South Wales Election Social Index
It’s state election season in Australia: the repercussions from Labor’s upset win in the January 2015 state election in Queensland have barely died down, but the New South Wales election on 28 March is...
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Twitter wakes up to harassment but the law is still sleeping
Twitter’s new system for reporting harassment and threats to law enforcement comes after the platform has received serious criticism for its poor handling of harassment. The company’s chief executive,...
View ArticleCall for PhD Applications: Social Media and Public Communication
We’re now looking for the second PhD student associated with my current ARC Future Fellowship project. The PhD student will receive an annual stipend of A$25,849 over the three years of the PhD...
View ArticlePostdoc Position Available: Public Sphere Theory and Social Media Analytics
In addition to the PhD position I advertised last week, I am now also offering a two-year, full-time postdoc position on the same project at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia...
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Another Month, Another Election: Tracking the UK General Election
Over the past few months we have already provided some live analysis of the social media activities around the Queensland and New South Wales state elections, using our Election Social Indices built on...
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#hereifyouneed: An Inside View of Social Media at the Netball World Cup
The Netball World Cup kicked off in Sydney on Friday and it’s been a big four days of the competition so far! The blockbuster game, Australia v New Zealand, took place on Sunday night with New Zealand...
View ArticleQUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) PhD Scholarships for 2016 Entry
The Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is now calling for expressions of interest from prospective postgraduate research students as part of the...
View ArticleCall for Applications: CCI Digital Methods Summer School, 15-19 Feb. 2016...
We are now inviting applications for the 2016 CCI Digital Methods Summer School. The deadline for application is Monday 21 Sep. 2016. Hosted by the QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC), the 2016...
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QUT DMRC+SMRG @ IR16 (Phoenix AZ, 21-24 October 2015)
It’s that time of year where SMRG members pack up their slides and head to various conferences, symposia, and workshops around the world, with the annual Association of Internet Researchers conference...
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Crisis Communication: Saving Time and Lives in Disasters through Smarter...
By Terry Flew and Axel Bruns (crossposted from The Conversation) As the worst bushfires seen for generations in New South Wales raged across the Blue Mountains, Southern Highlands and the Central Coast...
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Now Out: The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics
The first new SMRG publication for 2016 has arrived: we’re delighted to announce that a major collection edited by Axel Bruns and colleagues Gunn Enli, Eli Skogerbø, Anders Olof Larsson, and Christian...
View ArticleA First Draft of the Present: Why We Must Preserve Social Media Content
History, they say, is written by the winners – but more concretely, it is written on the basis of the records that survive and are accessible to historians. For most of human history, these have...
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Twitter in Australia: How We’ve Grown and What We Talk About
There are plenty of assumptions and not a great deal of reliable data about how we use social media. Twitter, for example, is variously accused of being a haven for leftist outrage and a cesspool of...
View ArticleA Handful of Presentations from ANZCA 2017
A number of us presented our recent research at the Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference at the University of Sydney last week. Here are some of the presentations: Stephen...
View ArticleThe Library of Congress Twitter Archive: A Failure of Historic Proportions
It’s dead: the U.S. Library of Congress has officially pulled the plug on its project to create a full, complete archive of all of Twitter — past, present, and future. The Library will now only archive...
View ArticleA New Map of the Australian Twittersphere
Researchers from the QUT Digital Media Research Centre have released a new, detailed analysis of the structure of the Australian Twittersphere. Covering some 3.72 million Australian Twitter accounts,...
View ArticleSocial Media, Habitual Gatewatching, and the News Industry
A few weeks ago I visited Israel to present a keynote at the inaugural Haifa-LINKS Symposium on Content Producers. The keynote draws on my new book Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social...
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Just Published: Gatewatching and News Curation
I am delighted to announce the publication of my new book Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere, in Peter Lang’s Digital Formations Series. This major new...
View ArticleA Round-Up of New Publications from the QUT Digital Media Research Centre
A substantial number of new social media research publications from the Digital Media Research Centre have recently shown up on QUT’s ePrints repository. Here’s an overview: Tanya Notley, Michael...
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