The end-of-year conference season is over, and the various members of the Social Media Research Group are returning to QUT for a well-deserved summer break. This seems as good an excuse as any to round up our latest papers and presentations and show off the work we’ve done over the past few months – here they are, loosely organised by themes. Click through for the slides and (in some cases) audio:

‘Big Data’

• Jean Burgess: A Decade of ‘Social Media’ and What to Do about It: Methodological Challenges of Historicising the Proprietary Web, presented at the Association of Internet Researchers Conference pre-conference on Internet Histories, Denver, 23-26 Oct. 2013.
• Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess: Easy Data, Hard Data? Twitter Research and the Politics of Data Access, presented at the Compromised Data symposium, Toronto, 28 Oct. 2013.
• Darryl Woodford: Slicing Big Data: Gambling, Twitter & Time Sensitive Information, presented at the Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Denver, 23-26 Oct. 2013.
• Darryl Woodford: Lightning Talk: Social Media Methods & Ethics, presented at the Association of Internet Researchers Conference pre-conference, Denver, 23-26 Oct. 2013.
• Sky Croeser and Tim Highfield: Mapping Movements: Social Movement Research and Big Data: Critiques and Alternatives, presented at the Compromised Data symposium, Toronto, 29 Oct. 2013.

Crisis Communication

• Jean Burgess, Axel Bruns and Avijit Paul: Cumulative and Comparative Social Media Analytics for Crisis Communication, presented at the Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Denver, 23-26 Oct. 2013.
• Axel Bruns: Social Media Issue Publics in Australia, presented at the IBM Research Colloquium 2013, Melbourne, 12 Nov. 2013.
• Avijit Paul: Extracting Important Information from Social Network Stream during Crisis, presented at the Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Denver, 23-26 Oct. 2013.
• Axel Bruns: Social Media in Times of Crisis: The Australian Perspective, presented at a Project EPIC symposium, Boulder, 23 Oct. 2013.

News and Politics

• Axel Bruns, Tim Highfield and Theresa Sauter: #ausvotes Mark Two: Twitter in the 2013 Australian Federal Election, presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Denver, 24 Oct. 2013.
• Theresa Sauter and Axel Bruns: Exploring Emotions on #auspol: Polarity and Public Performance in the Twitter Debate on Australian Politics, presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Denver, 26 Oct. 2013.
• Tim Highfield: Appropriating Breaking News? The Evolving Twitter Coverage of the Lance Armstrong Doping Scandal, presented at the Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Denver, 23-26 Oct. 2013.
• Axel Bruns: Twitter and the 2013 Australian Election, presented at Political Imperatives: Media and the 2013 Election Campaign, Brisbane, 27 Sep. 2013.
• Wilfred Wang: Defending Cantonese Weibo and Geo-Identity Politics in Guangzhou China, presented at ‘The Impact of War on Modern Chinese Society’, University of Queensland, Brisbane, 18-19 Oct. 2013.
• Axel Bruns and Theresa Sauter: Anatomie eines Trending Topics: Retweet-Ketten als Verbreitungsmechanismus für aktuelle Ereignisse, presented at the DGPuk Innovative Methods for the Study of Public Communication workshop, Vienna, 8 Nov. 2013.

Popular Culture

• Ana Vimieiro and Renato Vimieiro: Oscar Pistorius and the Death of Reeva Steenkamp: Mapping Public Opinions Using Frame Analysis and Data Mining, presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Denver, 23-26 Oct. 2013.
• Katrin Weller and Axel Bruns: Friends or Followers: German Soccer Clubs and Their Fans on Twitter, presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Denver, 25 Oct. 2013.
• Tim Highfield: News via Voldemort: The Role of Parody and Satire in Topical Discussions on Twitter, presented at the Association of Internet Researchers Conference, Denver, 23-26 Oct. 2013.
• Theresa Sauter and Axel Bruns: #Pontiff-Ex: The Twitter Community’s Reaction to the Papal Resignation, presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Denver, 25 Oct. 2013.

Platforms

• Kim Osman: Wikipedia as a New Media Institution: Issues of Diversity, Regulation and Sustainability in an Open Encyclopaedia, poster presented at WikiSym & OpenSym 2013, Hong Kong, 5-7 Aug. 2013 (paper at QUT ePrints).
• Wilfred Wang: Identity, Locality and Social Media in Guangzhou China, presented at the Fifth Postgraduate Symposium: Identities, Ideas, Ideologies, Griffith University, Brisbane, 1 Nov. 2013.

That should be enough for 2013! See you next year at a conference somewhere…