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Snurb — Monday 16 September 2024 14:24

The Filter in Our (?) Heads: Digital Media and Polarisation (NRC 2024)

Politics | Government | Polarisation | Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Social Media Network Mapping | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | Conferences |
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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 — 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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Snurb — Tuesday 18 October 2022 05:28

News Media and Audiences in the Digital Sphere: Gatewatching and News Curation (Colombia 2022)

Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | Conferences |
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Snurb — Saturday 8 October 2022 05:29

A Busy End to the Year

Politics | Elections | Travel | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | QUT Digital Media Research Centre | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | Conferences | AoIR 2022 | ECREA 2022 | NMRC 2022 | General Teaching Work |

As you are reading this, I’m probably in Zürich. Or in Stavanger. Aarhus. Hamburg. Dublin. Passau. Berlin. Vienna. The last few months of 2022 are going to be very busy.

But first things first: since the start of September, I’ve been in Zürich, on a semester-long guest professorship at the Institut für Kommunikationswissenschaft und Medienforschung (IKMZ) at the University of Zürich. We’d originally started planning this in 2019, but COVID-19 and the associated border closures put paid to that idea, and my hosts here have been able to keep the idea alive until now – so here I finally am …

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Snurb — Thursday 12 May 2022 02:02

Following the 2022 Australian Federal Election … from Italy

Politics | Elections | Government | Travel | Social Media | Facebook | Twitter | QUT Digital Media Research Centre | Conferences |

I’m on my first conference trip since COVID hit, and currently at Konrad Adenauer’s old summer residence Villa La Collina in Cadenabbia, Italy, where we’ve just concluded the Digital Campaigning in Dissonant Public Spheres symposium ahead of the massive International Communication Association conference in Paris later this month. Many thanks to Ulrike Klinger and Uta Rußmann for organising the event, and the Adenauer Foundation for hosting us.

On behalf of my QUT Digital Media Research Centre colleagues Dan Angus, Tim Graham, Ehsan Dehghan and myself I presented a first take on social media the 2022 Australian federal election at this …

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Snurb — Thursday 12 May 2022 01:40

The COVID Election: Political Campaigning on Social Media in the 2022 Australian Federal Election (DCDPS 2022)

Politics | Elections | Government | Social Media | Facebook | Twitter | ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | Conferences |

DCDPS 2022

The COVID Election: Political Campaigning on Social Media in the 2022 Australian Federal Election

Axel Bruns, Daniel Angus, Timothy Graham, and Ehsan Dehghan

  • 9 May 2022 – Paper presented at the Digital Campaigning in Dissonant Public Spheres symposium, Villa La Collina, Cadenabbia, Italy

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