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Snurb — Tuesday 21 July 2020 11:45

Researching 'Fake News' about COVID-19

Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | Conferences | SM&S 2020 |

I’ve been working from home since mid-March now, but the research continues even if remotely. Here are some more updates on the latest outputs.

First, in addition to our ‘Australia at Home’ online seminar, my QUT colleague Tim Graham and I (with support from our research assistant Guangnan Zhu and Rod Campbell from the Australia Institute) have now also published a report for the Australia Institute’s Centre for Responsible Technology that investigates the presence of coordinated activity on Twitter in the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak. We find evidence of coordinated networks of accounts promoting the false claim …

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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 — Wednesday 16 January 2019 13:17

Impact and Engagement through The Conversation and Other Amplifier Platforms (ACEMS 2018)

Journalism | Online Publishing | Social Media | Amplifying Public Value: Scholarly Contributions’ Impact on Public Debate (ARC Linkage) | Conferences |

ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical & Statistical Frontiers 2018

Impact and Engagement through The Conversation and Other Amplifier Platforms

Axel Bruns

  • 4 Oct. 2018 – ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical & Statistical Frontiers Impact Workshop, Brisbane
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Snurb — Monday 24 September 2018 16:35

Filter Bubbles in the Australian Twittersphere? (Misinformation and Media 2018)

‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Social Media Network Mapping | TrISMA (ARC LIEF) | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | Conferences |

Misinformation and Media Symposium 2018

Filter Bubbles in the Australian Twittersphere?

Axel Bruns

  • 10 Sep. 2018 – Misinformation and Media Symposium 2018, Canberra
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Snurb — Monday 24 September 2018 15:57

Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere (Media@Sydney 2018)

Politics | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Blogs and Blogging | Social Media | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | Conferences |

Media@Sydney 2018

Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere

Axel Bruns

  • 24 Aug. 2018 – Media@Sydney 2018, Sydney
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Snurb — Saturday 10 March 2018 15:29

Social Media, Habitual Gatewatching, and the News Industry

Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Blogs and Blogging | Social Media | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | Conferences |

A few weeks ago I visited Israel to present a keynote at the inaugural Haifa-LINKS Symposium on Content Producers. The keynote draws on my new book Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere, and focusses especially on the news industry’s responses to the growing role that gatewatching and newssharing via social media play in the dissemination of news and related journalistic content. The presentation slides are below.

Following the initial scepticism about (and, in some cases, belligerent dismissal of) social media as a new channel for journalistic activity – a response that mirrors past …

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Snurb — Sunday 25 February 2018 14:54

Gatewatching and News Curation: Industry Responses to Habitual Newssharing by Audiences (Haifa-LINKS 2018)

Politics | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Blogs and Blogging | Social Media | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | Conferences |

Haifa-LINKS Symposium on Content Producers 2018

Gatewatching and News Curation: Industry Responses to Habitual Newssharing by Audiences

Axel Bruns

  • 18 Feb. 2018 – Haifa-LINKS Symposium on Content Producers, Haifa
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Snurb — Sunday 8 May 2016 14:39

New Publications, and Coming Attractions

Journalism | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | Internet Content Preservation | QUT Digital Media Research Centre | ARC Future Fellowship | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | Publications | Conferences | ACSPRI 2016 | SM&S 2016 |

I’m delighted to share a couple of new publications written with my esteemed colleagues in the QUT Digital Media Research Centre – and as if we weren’t working on enough research projects already, this year is about to get an awful lot busier soon, too. First, though, to the latest articles:

Axel Bruns, Brenda Moon, Avijit Paul, and Felix Münch. “Towards a Typology of Hashtag Publics: A Large-Scale Comparative Study of User Engagement across Trending Topics.” Communication Research and Practice 2.1 (2016): 20-46.

This article, in a great special issue of Communication Research and Practice on digital media …

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Snurb — Monday 28 March 2016 12:59

Wissenschaftsjournalismus als Dienstleistung: Die Verstärkerplattform The Conversation (WÖM 2016)

Journalism | Social Media | Conferences |

Wissenschaft, Öffentlichkeit und Medien (2016)

Wissenschaftsjournalismus als Dienstleistung: Die Verstärkerplattform The Conversation

Axel Bruns

  • 18 Mar. 2016 – Wissenschaft, Öffentlichkeit und Medien workshop, Berlin
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Snurb — Monday 28 March 2016 12:48

Amplifying Impact: Developing Indicators of Public Value in Public Communication (CRCA 2016)

Journalism | Online Publishing | Social Media | Conferences |

Cooperative Research Centres Association conference 2016

Amplifying Impact: Developing Indicators of Public Value in Public Communication

Axel Bruns

  • 8 Mar. 2016 – Cooperative Research Centres Association conference, Brisbane
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