Alfred Hermida Guest Lecture at QUT
We’re exceptionally pleased to be able to host a special guest lecture by internationally renowned journalism scholar Alfred Hermida at the end of November – please join....
New Book: Twitter and Society
We’re delighted to announce the launch of the first book to emerge from the QUT Social Media Research Group, in collaboration with the Junior Researchers Group “Science....
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SMRG on the Road
The end-of-year conference season is about to get underway, and we’ve got a big group of staff and students from the Social Media Research Group heading overseas to present....
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QUT Call for PhD Applications (Closes 13 October 2013)
It’s that time of the year again: we are now calling for expressions of interest from prospective students interested in doing their PhD research with us at Queensland University....
#ausvotes: Twitter Activity across the Electorates
Over at Mapping Online Publics, we’ve begun to cover the role of Twitter during the 2013 Australian federal election. Following on from yesterday’s update of overall Twitter....
Moving Politics Online: How Australian Mainstream Media Portray Social Media as Political Tools
(by Theresa Sauter and Axel Bruns – crossposted from Mapping Online Publics) Difficult as it may be to believe, we’re still almost three months out from the likely date....
Welcome to the QUT Social Media Research Group
Welcome to socialmedia.qut.edu.au. This site serves as the central research space for the QUT Social Media Research Group (SMRG), a group of social media researchers in the....
QUT Short Course “Introduction to Social Media”: Sign Up Now
Examine the most effective ways of using social media tools for your organisation or business. This introductory short course offers an overview of social media tools and....
Social Media in Times of Crisis 2013: Register Now!
Our research into the use of social media for crisis communication, which produced last year’s report on the use of Twitter during the 2011 Queensland floods and a variety....
ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index 2012 Round-Up
Having gathered data for the Australian Twitter News Index since mid-2012, it’s time now to review the overall patterns which the index has shown us over the past six months.....