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Snurb — Tuesday 19 May 2020 09:23

Homebrew CommResearch Club: Computational Approaches to Studying COVID-19 (CCA 2020)

Politics | Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Crisis Communication | Twitter | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | Conferences |

CCA Solidarity Symposium 2020

Homebrew CommResearch Club: Computational Approaches to Studying COVID-19

Jonathan Zhu, Axel Bruns, Wenhong Chen, Cuihua Cindy Shen, Celine Yunya Song, and Wayne Xu

  • 9 May 2020 – Chinese Communication Association Solidarity Symposium, online
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Snurb — Thursday 10 October 2019 15:32

Out-of-the-Box vs. In-House Tools: How Are They Affecting Data Journalism in Australia? (ANZCA 2019)

Journalism | Industrial Journalism | 'Big Data' | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | ANZCA 2019 |

ANZCA 2019

Out-of-the-Box vs. In-House Tools: How Are They Affecting Data Journalism in Australia?

Mathias Felipe de Lima-Santos, Aljosha Karim Schapals, and Axel Bruns

  • 5 July 2019 – Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference, Canberra
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Snurb — Thursday 10 October 2019 15:05

Mining Influencers in the German Twittersphere: Mapping a Language-Based Follow Network (IC2S2 2019)

'Big Data' | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Social Media Network Mapping | TrISMA (ARC LIEF) | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | IC2S2 2019 |

IC2S2 2019

Mining Influencers in the German Twittersphere: Mapping a Language-Based Follow Network

Felix Victor Münch, Ben Thies, Cornelius Puschmann, and Axel Bruns

  • 18 July 2019 – International Conference on Computational Social Science, Amsterdam
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Snurb — Thursday 10 October 2019 14:31

Bots among Us: Prevalence, Influence, and Roles of Automated Accounts in the German Twitter Follow Network (AoIR 2019)

‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Social Media Network Mapping | TrISMA (ARC LIEF) | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | AoIR 2019 |

AoIR 2019

Bots among Us: Prevalence, Influence, and Roles of Automated Accounts in the German Twitter Follow Network

Felix Victor Münch, Cornelius Puschmann, Ben Thies, and Axel Bruns

  • 5 Oct. 2019 – Association of Internet Researchers conference, Brisbane
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Snurb — Thursday 10 October 2019 14:01

Are Journalism Metrics Trustworthy Enough to Be Used in Editorial Decision-Making? (AoIR 2019)

Journalism | Industrial Journalism | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | AoIR 2019 |

AoIR 2019

Are Journalism Metrics Trustworthy Enough to Be Used in Editorial Decision-Making?

Aljosha Karim Schapals and Axel Bruns

  • 3 Oct. 2019 – Association of Internet Researchers conference, Brisbane
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Snurb — Thursday 3 October 2019 10:07

Do Music Managers Trust Streaming Metrics?

'Big Data' | Streaming Media | AoIR 2019 | Music |

The final speaker in this AoIR 2019 session is Arnt Maasø, who shifts our attention to the role of metrics in the music business. Datafication has grown in the music industry as well, with a strong turn to metrics in recent years. Where some decades ago the industry was run by self-taught entrepreneurs who were running their businesses predominantly by gut instinct, now music metrics are everywhere and directly influence decision-making.

Arnt’s project conducted surveys and interviews with professionals in the Norwegian music industry. Almost half of the survey respondents use music metrics in their jobs, but such use is …

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Snurb — Thursday 3 October 2019 09:46

Do Scholars Trust Their Altmetrics?

'Big Data' | Social Media | Amplifying Public Value: Scholarly Contributions’ Impact on Public Debate (ARC Linkage) | AoIR 2019 |

The next speaker in this AoIR 2019 session is my colleague Kim Osman, presenting outcomes from our research project in collaboration with The Conversation and the Cooperative Research Centres Association in Australia. We are interested in assessments of the public value and impact of scholarly work, which are also increasingly demanded by the governments that fund scholarly research. Slides here:

AoIR 2019 Trust in Altmetrics from kimosman

Increasingly, platforms like The Conversation as well as social media are also critical to the engagement with and impact of scholarly research, and there has been a rise in the development of scholarly …

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Snurb — Thursday 3 October 2019 09:26

Do Journalists Trust Journalistic Metrics?

Journalism | Industrial Journalism | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | AoIR 2019 |

It’s Thursday morning, and after the fabulous opening keynote by Bronwyn Carlson last night the AoIR 2019 conference at QUT in Brisbane is now getting started properly. This morning I’m in a panel on metrics in journalism, academia, and music that begins with a paper I’ve been involved in, and which my colleague Aljosha Karim Schapals will present. The slides are here:

Trust in Journalism Metrics from aljosha

Our key question here is whether journalism metrics are trustworthy enough to be used in editorial decision-making. This is part of a larger project on the future of journalism in a post-journalism …

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Snurb — Monday 26 August 2019 10:59

Some Questions about Filter Bubbles, Polarisation, and the APIcalypse

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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?, which is out now from Polity –, and the Portuguese version of that interview has just been published. I thought I’d post the English-language answers here, too:

1. Why are the ‘filter bubble’ and ‘echo chamber’ metaphors so dumb?

The first problem is that they are only metaphors: the people who introduced them never bothered to properly define them. This means that these concepts might sound sensible, but that they mean …

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Snurb — Tuesday 16 July 2019 13:30

A Round-Up of Some Recent Publications

Politics | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | TrISMA (ARC LIEF) | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | Publications |

Well, it’s mid-year and I’m back from a series of conferences in Europe and elsewhere, so this seems like a good time to take stock and round up some recent publications that may have slipped through the net.

Gatewatching and News Curation

But let’s begin with a reminder that my book Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere was published by Peter Lang in 2018 and is now available from Amazon and other book stores. The book is the sequel (not a second edition) to Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (2005), and updates the story of …

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