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Crisis Communication: Saving Time and Lives in Disasters through Smarter Social Media

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....

Special Issue of Social Media + Society – Call for Papers

Special Issue of Social Media and Society: Making Digital Cultures of Gender and Sexuality with Social Media Jean Burgess, Elija Cassidy, Stefanie Duguay, and Ben Light Digital....

Our Presentations at the Association of Internet Researchers Conference 2014

Another year is almost over, which must mean that conference season is upon us. This means, in particular, our annual pilgrimage to the wonderful annual conference of the....

Creative Citizenship and Social Media

I’ve had a wonderful time in an unseasonably sunny London this week, which has included a keynote presentation at the Creative Citizens conference at the Royal College....

A Round-Up of Our Recent Presentations

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....

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....

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....

‘What’s on your mind?’ Writing on Facebook as a tool for self-formation

My new publication on writing on Facebook as a tool for self-formation in New Media & Society develops non-technologically deterministic and historically aware ways of....

Why ‘small’ still matters in big data

  Big data is big news in almost every sector including crisis communication. However, apart from having limited access to big data, we often do not have necessary tools....

Introducing the Companion to New Media Dynamics

I’m delighted to announce the completion of another major project we’ve been involved in: Blackwell has just published A Companion to New Media Dynamics, edited by John....