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Snurb — Wednesday 15 October 2025 02:46

Destructive Polarisation in Climate Debates: An Exploration Using the Practice Mapping Approach (UFRGS 2025)

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

UFRGS 2025

Destructive Polarisation in Climate Debates: An Exploration Using the Practice Mapping Approach

Axel Bruns

  • 9 Oct. 2025 – Keynote presented at the AoIR 2025 satellite event "Disinformation, Social Media Platforms, and the Climate Crisis" at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre

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Snurb — Wednesday 15 October 2025 02:39

From “the” Public Sphere to a Network of Publics: Rethinking Contemporary Public Communication Spaces (UFMG 2025)

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 |

UFMG 2025

From “the” Public Sphere to a Network of Publics: Rethinking Contemporary Public Communication Spaces

Axel Bruns

  • 6 Oct. 2025 – Keynote presented at the colloquium "Perspectives on Public Spheres and the Network of Publics" at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte

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Snurb — Wednesday 15 October 2025 02:33

Überladung, nicht Isolation: Desinformation, Filterblasen, und Echokammern (DHPol 2025)

Politics | Polarisation | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | Conferences |

DHPol 2025

Überladung, nicht Isolation: Desinformation, Filterblasen, und Echokammern

Axel Bruns

  • 7 Aug. 2025 – Invited presentation at the Deutsche Hochschule der Polizei, online

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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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Beyond Interaction Networks: An Introduction to Practice Mapping (ACSPRI 2024)

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