Twitter Excitement Index & Aussie TV Premieres
Welcome to another week of Telemetrics updates. In this blog we’ll take a quick look back at the last set of ‘predictions’, explore the Twitter Excitement....
Let’s Get Visual: Infographics of the Twittersphere
Hello World! My name is Kate Guy and I’m a Creative Industries student at QUT. I became involved in this project through the VRES (Vacation Research Experience Scholarship)....
The Week in Telemetrics: Advanced Metrics & Fine-Tuning
A new week, and so time for an update on progress in Telemetrics. In general, the last 10 days has primarily been concerned with adding additional fields and detail to our....
Introducing Telemetrics: The Weighted Tweet Index
Back in October, as I was flying to and from Denver for the AoIR conference, I was reading a number of books about sporting metrics, In one of these, “Trading Bases”,....
Alfred Hermida Livestream
Update 10 December: The archive recording of Alfred Hermida’s guest lecture is now available below (DW) As we’ve previously announced, the QUT Social Media Research....
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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#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....
Football fandom in the Brazilian Twitterland
Most people around the world know how passionate Brazilians are about football. More precisely, around 80% of the population there is at some level a football fan, a recent....
Australian Reality TV on Twitter: A Two Horse Race
Last weekend provided an opportunity to compare the three currently running Australian reality television series, and their social media presence, with Big Brother Showdown....