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Snurb — Sunday 9 July 2023 05:22

Affective Polarisation in Political Leaders' Discourses: A Comparison between Australia, Brazil, Denmark, and Perú (ICA 2023)

Politics | Elections | Government | Filesharing | Social Media | Twitter | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | ICA 2023 |
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Snurb — Sunday 9 July 2023 05:14

Networks of Agonism and Antagonism: Polarised Discourses about COP26 (and COP27) on Twitter (ICA 2023)

Politics | Government | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | ICA 2023 |
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Snurb — Friday 7 July 2023 19:24

A Clutch of Presentations from ICA 2023

Politics | Government | Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | Publications | ICA 2023 |

Following on from the videos I shared in the previous post, here’s a round-up of a few recent presentations. These are all from the 2023 International Communication Association conference in Toronto, and mostly from my Laureate Fellowship project on polarisation and partisanship.

And coming up shortly: our presentations and my liveblogging from IAMCR 2023 in Lyon!

But back to Toronto: first, my colleague Sebastian Svegaard presented our study of political leaders’ posts across four national elections at an ICA pre-conference on comparative research over time, across platforms, and across nations – and we focussed especially on that cross-national comparison. The …

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Snurb — Wednesday 28 June 2023 16:14

The Anatomy of Virality: How COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Spread across Social and Mainstream Media (ICFJ 2023)

Politics | Conferences | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | Facebook | Journalism | Social Media | ‘Fake News’ |
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Snurb — Wednesday 28 June 2023 15:59

Future-Proofing the Public Sphere (CDDGG 2023)

Politics | Journalism | Social Media | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | Conferences |
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Snurb — Wednesday 28 June 2023 15:50

The Filter in Our (?) Heads: Digital Media and Polarisation (CDDGG 2023)

Politics | Journalism | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | Conferences |
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Snurb — Wednesday 28 June 2023 15:32

Some Recent Videos on Polarisation, Misinformation, and Related Topics

Politics | Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Facebook | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | Conferences |

The past few months have been quite busy with conferences and events, so here’s a quick update on what I’ve been up to recently. I’ll start here with a handful of videos from recent events – more on my recent and upcoming conference papers, journal articles, and book chapters in subsequent posts…

First, in May I was delighted to participate in a three-part series on “Future-Proofing the Public Sphere”, hosted by the Centre for Deliberative Democracy & Global Governance and the News & Media Research Centre at the University of Canberra, and the Digital Media Research Centre at …

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Snurb — Monday 24 April 2023 15:36

Gatewatching and News Curation: The Lecture Series

Politics | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Blogs and Blogging | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Facebook | Twitter | General Teaching Work |

One of the major components of my guest professorship at the University of Zürich in late 2022 was to develop and deliver a one-off undergraduate course on gatewatching and the continuing transformation of journalism as a result of the impact of social media, from the early days of blogs and citizen journalism to the present. This builds on my 2018 book Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere. I also took the opportunity to augment the book's contents with a handful of additional lectures on topics such as 'fake news', fact-checking, 'filter bubbles', and the …

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Snurb — Thursday 22 December 2022 07:35

A Few More Updates before the End of the Year

Politics | Government | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | QUT Digital Media Research Centre | Amplifying Public Value: Scholarly Contributions’ Impact on Public Debate (ARC Linkage) | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | Global Journalism Innovation Lab (SSHRC) | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | Publications |

As the year and my Guest Professorship here at the Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienforschung (IKMZ) at the University of Zürich are coming to an end, here are a handful of final updates hot of the presses.

First, I’m very happy to say that at article about the Russian propaganda organ RT’s audiences on Facebook has just been published in Information, Communication & Society. This was a difficult piece of research not least because it involved coding data in six languages, but I’m delighted to say that we managed to find native speakers of all those languages (Russian …

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Snurb — Sunday 4 December 2022 01:43

From the Fringes to the Mainstream: How COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Spread across Social and Mainstream Media (HECF 2022)

Politics | Government | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Facebook | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | Conferences |
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