‘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....
Some Questions about Filter Bubbles, Polarisation, and the APIcalypse
Rafael Grohmann from the Brazilian blog DigiLabour has asked me to answer some questions about my recent work – and especially my new book Are Filter Bubbles Real?,....
Filter Bubbles and Echo Chambers: Debunking the Myths
(Crossposted from the Polity blog.) Filter bubbles and echo chambers have become very widely accepted concepts – so much so that even Barack Obama referenced the....
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One Day in the Life of a National Twittersphere
Taking a break from all the politics, Brenda Moon and I have examined everything that goes on in the Australian Twittersphere on a given day. We found....
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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....
The Library of Congress Twitter Archive: A Failure of Historic Proportions
It’s dead: the U.S. Library of Congress has officially pulled the plug on its project to create a full, complete archive of all of Twitter — past, present, and future.....
A Handful of Presentations from ANZCA 2017
A number of us presented our recent research at the Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference at the University of Sydney last week. Here are some of the....
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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....