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Snurb — Thursday 23 November 2023 08:52

What Are the Consequences of the Decline of Twitter under Elon Musk?

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | ANZCA 2023 |

The second full day at ANZCA 2023 started with my own keynote, on the not-so-slow demise of Twitter under Elon Musk. There was quite a substantial amount of material to work through, of course – here are my slides:

What Is Lost When Twitter Is Lost? Reflections on the Impending Death of a Platform from Axel Bruns
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Snurb — Wednesday 22 November 2023 12:38

Social Media and the News about the Voice to Parliament Referendum in Australia

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

OK, so I skipped the previous session as I got talking about current research projects with a number of colleagues I hadn’t seen for a while, but I’m back for the final session this afternoon, on the recent Voice to Parliament referendum in Australia, where my colleague Sam Vilkins and I are presenting our own papers. I’m the first presenter in the session, so here are my slides:

Voices on the Voice Referendum: A Computational Analysis of News and Audience Polarisation within the Australian Media Landscape from Axel Bruns
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Snurb — Tuesday 14 November 2023 13:30

Voices on the Voice Referendum: A Computational Analysis of News and Audience Polarisation within the Australian Media Landscape (ANZCA 2023)

Elections | Government | Politics | Polarisation | ANZCA 2023 | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | Facebook | Industrial Journalism | Journalism | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | Streaming Media | Twitter | ‘Fake News’ |
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Snurb — Saturday 21 October 2023 23:49

Governance Challenges for the Fediverse

Produsage Communities | Internet Technologies | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | AoIR 2023 |

The next speakers in this AoIR 2023 session are Aram Sinnreich and Rob Gehl, whose focus is on governance challenges for Mastodon’s Fediverse. Other social media platforms tend to fail due to the clash between the profit motives of platform operators and the community interests of users; this should enable it to bypass some of the pitfalls for civic engagement on corporate social media. Yet there may be other challenges for community-driven, federated social media like Mastodon – indeed, there are a number of other platforms that now build on the ActivityPub protocol that is best-known for underpinning Mastodon.

For …

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Snurb — Saturday 21 October 2023 23:47

The Invite-Only Dynamics of Clubhouse’s Rise and Fail

Produsage Communities | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | Streaming Media | AoIR 2023 |

The next speaker in this AoIR 2023 session is Cindy Fang, whose interest is in the early days of the Clubhouse social media platform – an invite-only audio app that became popular during the COVID-19 pandemic and attracted a number of high-profile users (including Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk). This userbase can be understood as a networked public, structured by the platform’s affordances – or in this case, networked listeners and active producers of content.

Clubhouse also provided a sense of community, with audio streams and comments on that content; this produces some social capital for prominent participants which is …

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Snurb — Thursday 19 October 2023 04:52

Types of Polarisation and Their Operationalisation in Digital and Social Media Research (AoIR 2023)

Government | Polarisation | Politics | AoIR 2023 | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | Journalism | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | ‘Fake News’ |
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Snurb — Friday 1 September 2023 18:18

Assessing Polarisation and Partisanship across Four Dimensions

Politics | Polarisation | Journalism | 'Big Data' | Artificial Intelligence | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | ECREA PolCom 2023 |

I am presenting the next paper in this ECREA PolCom 2023 conference, providing a brief overview of our Laureate Fellowship project on the drivers and dynamics of polarisation and partisanship. Here are the slides:

Determining the Drivers and Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate from Axel Bruns
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Snurb — Thursday 31 August 2023 19:43

Cross-Platform Networks of Digital Counterpublics in Denmark and Sweden

Politics | Polarisation | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | ECREA PolCom 2023 |

Up next in this ECREA PolCom 2023 conference panel is Eva Mayerhöffer, on digital counterpublics in Sweden and Denmark. Her project defined and identified a category of alternative news media: quasi-journalistic hybrid organisations that can foster the inward as well as outward orientation of digital counterpublics. The dissemination of this content can be liberating for one’s personal information flows, but can also disseminate potentially detrimental information. Its mapping can help map the structures of digital counterpublics.

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This structure examines the alternative news environment that the sharing of content from these sites through various social media platforms creates. In doing …

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Snurb — Thursday 3 August 2023 13:33

Some Contributions to Public Debate in Australia and Elsewhere

Politics | Elections | Government | Polarisation | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter |

Continuing with the round-up of recent activity I began in my last few posts (covering new articles, new conference presentations, new research videos, and my lecture series on Gatewatching and News Curation), here’s an update on a few other writings and presentations for a more general audience.

Facebook News Ban Redux

Perhaps most timely of these, paradoxically, is the oldest: in October 2022 I was interviewed by Canadian legal scholar Michael Geist on his long-running Law Bytes podcast, about Canada’s proposed C-18 bill that is modelled closely on Australia’s controversial News Media Bargaining Code. In …

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Snurb — Friday 14 July 2023 07:23

A Quartet of New Articles: Public Sphere, Platform Policy, Polarisation, and Social Media Data

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

Now that the ICA 2023 and IAMCR 2023 conferences are over and I’m back in Brisbane with a little time before the next round of conferences (ECREA PolCom in Berlin in August, Future of Journalism in Cardiff in September, and AoIR in Philadelphia in October), I’m finally finding some time to update this blog with some new publications as well – in addition to the various conference presentations and papers I already shared in previous posts.

First, I’m really pleased to have published a conceptual article in a special issue of the Communication Theory journal that was edited by …

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