After my stops in Brussels, Aarhus, Hamburg, and Bergen I'm now on the Brazilian leg of this conference journey, having already visited Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre for satellite symposia before the AoIR 2025 conference proper begins tomorrow. Here are some updates from those events, and slides for my presentations.
Researching Cross-Platform Campaigning in the 2025 Australian Federal Election
Axel Bruns
18 Oct. 2025 – Paper by Axel Bruns, Samantha Vilkins, Katherine M. FitzGerald, Tariq Choucair, Daniel Angus, Caroline Gardam, Kunal Chand, Laura Vodden, Klaus Groebner, Katharina Esau, Carly Lubicz-Zaorski, and Ehsan Dehghan, presented at the 2025 Association of Internet Researchers conference, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro
The fourth speaker in this session at the IAMCR 2025 conference in Singapore is Jessica Kühn, whose focus is on adolescents’ egocentric networks on social media platforms. This draws on the qualitative network analysis method (QNA), which focusses on an individual’s network as an egocentric, personal network, and on the individual’s perceptions of that network as well as on the perceptions of their contacts.
This surfaces which network contacts matter to the central individual, how, and why, and helps us to analyse the embeddedness of individuals within their social environment. But it is a complex and work-intensive method – most …
