conferences – QUT Social Media Research Group https://socialmedia.qut.edu.au Fri, 05 Sep 2014 06:43:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 #digcult14 – a Symposium on Gender, Sexuality and Social Media https://socialmedia.qut.edu.au/2014/09/05/digcult14-a-symposium-on-gender-sexuality-and-social-media/ https://socialmedia.qut.edu.au/2014/09/05/digcult14-a-symposium-on-gender-sexuality-and-social-media/#respond Fri, 05 Sep 2014 06:37:31 +0000 http://socialmedia.qut.edu.au/?p=741 On the 28th October, we will be hosting a symposium here at QUT dedicated to questions of gender, sexuality and social media. The symposium will be followed the next day by a PhD masterclass for students interested in sociocultural qualitative approaches to digital media research.

#digcult14: Making Digital Cultures of Gender and Sexuality with Social Media
28-29 October, QUT, Brisbane

Bringing together leading and emerging scholars in the study of the digital, gender and sexuality, the symposium seeks to further interrogate questions of the contemporary making of digital cultures of gender and sexuality. Whilst difference-based approaches to understanding the gendered make up of social media users and audiences have been tackled, this symposium focuses more upon the ways in which gender and sexuality are constructed and circulated with and by this media. Additionally, it will seek to explore how sociotechnical elements of social media are being transferred to other digital cultures of gender and sexuality.

Speakers include: Kath Albury (University of New South Wales), Jenine Beekhuyzen (Griffith University), Jean Burgess (QUT), Paul Byron (University of New South Wales), Elija Cassidy (QUT) Stefanie Duguay (QUT), Clif Evers (University of Nottingham Ningbo), Ben Light (QUT), Sharif Mowlabocus (University of Sussex), Susanna Paasonen (University of Turku), Kane Race (The University of Sydney) and Emily Van Der Nagel (Swinburne University).

The PhD masterclass will be to enable a small group of 15-20 PhD students to engage with a group of internationally recognized researchers, and with each other, to discuss their work and their plans for its development. Please note that applications for the PhD masterclass need to be submitted as per the instructions on the symposium website by close of business in your time zone on 19 September 2014. Applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application no later than the 25 September 2014.

Both events are free to attend, but places are limited so early registration is advised.
More details can be found at https://www.digcult.org

]]> https://socialmedia.qut.edu.au/2014/09/05/digcult14-a-symposium-on-gender-sexuality-and-social-media/feed/ 0 A Round-Up of Our Recent Presentations https://socialmedia.qut.edu.au/2013/11/25/a-round-up-of-our-recent-presentations/ https://socialmedia.qut.edu.au/2013/11/25/a-round-up-of-our-recent-presentations/#respond Sun, 24 Nov 2013 23:56:29 +0000 http://socialmedia.qut.edu.au/?p=526 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’

Crisis Communication

News and Politics

Popular Culture

Platforms

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

]]> https://socialmedia.qut.edu.au/2013/11/25/a-round-up-of-our-recent-presentations/feed/ 0 SMRG on the Road https://socialmedia.qut.edu.au/2013/10/14/smrg-on-the-road/ https://socialmedia.qut.edu.au/2013/10/14/smrg-on-the-road/#respond Mon, 14 Oct 2013 00:00:02 +0000 http://socialmedia.qut.edu.au/?p=501 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 at a number of key conferences. Our biggest presence will be at the Association of Internet Researchers conference in Denver next week, where eight SMRG members are presenting a total of eleven papers. Also at AoIR, we’ll officially launch the major new collection Twitter and Society, co-edited in collaboration with our German colleagues Katrin Weller, Merja Mahrt, and Cornelius Puschmann by QUT’s Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. More on that book very soon!

For now, though, here’s an overview of the conference papers we’ll be presenting at AoIR and elsewhere. We’ll post slides and papers as we can.

Association of Internet Researchers conference, Denver, 24-27 Oct. 2013:

  • Panel: Social Media and Elections: The Use of Twitter in the 2013 Campaigns in Italy, Australia, Germany, and Norway(24 Oct. 2013, 13:40-15:10, in Horace Tabor)
    • Axel Bruns, Tim Highfield, and Theresa Sauter: “#ausvotes Mark Two: Twitter in the 2013 Australian Federal Election”
  • Session: Collaboration and Communication Online(24 Oct. 2013, 15:30-17:00, in Molly Brown)
    • Tim Highfield: “News via Voldemort: The Role of Parody and Satire in Topical Discussions on Twitter”
  • Session: Fans and Audiences(25 Oct. 2013, 10:00-11:30, in Molly Brown)
    • Katrin Weller and Axel Bruns: “Friends or Followers? The Relations between German Soccer Clubs and Their Fans on Twitter”
  • Panel: Celebrity Crises on Twitter (25 Oct. 2013, 12:50-14:20, in Confluence C):
    • Tim Highfield: “Appropriating Breaking News? The Evolving TwitterCoverage of the Lance Armstrong Doping Scandal”
    • Ana Vimieiro and Renato Vimieiro: “Oscar Pistorius and the Death of Reeva Steenkamp: Mapping Public Opinions on TwitterUsing Frame Analysis and Data Mining”
    • Theresa Sauter and Axel Bruns: “#Pontiff-Ex: The Twitter Community’s Reaction to the Papal Resignation”
  • Session: Power and Game Design(25 Oct. 2013, 14:40-16:10, in Confluence B)
    • John Banks and Darryl Woodford: “Social Media, Data Analytics and Videogames Development: Halfbrick Case Study”
  • Panel: Social Media in Crisis Communication(25 Oct. 2013, 14:40-16:10, in Platte River)
    • Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, and Avijit Paul: “Cumulative and Comparative Social Media Analytics for Crisis Communication”
  • Panel: Enacting Conflict, Controversy, and Aggression in Online Spaces(26 Oct. 2013, 10:40-12:10, in Lawrence A)
    • Theresa Sauter and Axel Bruns: “Exploring Emotions on #auspol: Polarity, Conservativism and Public Performance in the Twitter Debate on Australian Politics”
  • Roundtable and Book Launch: Twitter and Society and Beyond(26 Oct. 2013, 13:30-15:00, in Confluence B)
    • Jean Burgess, Axel Bruns, and Tim Highfield, with many other Twitter and Society editors and contributors
  • Panel: Slicing Big Data(26 Oct. 2013, 13:30-15:00, in Confluence C)
    • Darryl Woodford: “Twitter, Gambling and Time Sensitive Information”
    • Avijit Paul: “Extracting Important Information from a Social Network Stream during Crisis”

Compromised Data? New Paradigms in Social Media Theory and Methods colloquium, Toronto, 28-29 Oct. 2013

  • Paper: Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns: “Easy Data, Hard Data? TwitterResearch and the Politics of Data Access”
  • Sky Croeser and Tim Highfield: “Mapping Movements, Social Movement Research and Big Data: Critiques and Alternatives”

Uses Across Media: Co-Creation and Participation symposium, Copenhagen, 30-31 Oct. 2013

  • Axel Bruns: “Produsage Revisited”

Digital Methods: Innovative Ansätze zur Analyse öffentlicher Kommunikation im Internet conference, Vienna, 7-9 Nov. 2013

  • Axel Bruns and Theresa Sauter: “Anatomie eines Trending Topics: Retweet-Ketten als Verbreitungsmechanismus für aktuelle Ereignisse”

See you on the road!

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