More ‘Fake News’ Research, and a PhD Opportunity!
For those of you who have access to Australian television, this is an advance warning that the research on coronavirus-related mis- and disinformation that my colleagues....
‘Like a Virus’ – Disinformation in the Age of COVID-19
QUT DMRC social media researchers Dr Tim Graham and Prof. Axel Bruns participated in Essential Media’s Australia at Home online seminar series on 23 April, presenting....
(Re-) Introducing the Australian Twitter News Index
The Australian Twitter News Index (ATNIX) is a long-term project in the QUT Digital Media Research Centre that has gathered data on Australian news sharing on Twitter since....
Live Trends in the Australian Twittersphere
As a first piece of work that builds on QUT’s new Digital Observatory – a collaboration between the QUT Institute for Future Environments and the QUT Digital Media Research....
A 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....
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....
A 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....
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....
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....
Postdoc 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....