Mapping Online Publics

Just a quick plug for yet another project blog: as regular readers of this blog may know, with my colleague Jean Burgess and our collaborators Lars Kirchhoff and Thomas Nicolai at Sociomantic Labs I was successful in winning an ARC Discovery grant in last year’s round, for a three-year project aiming to map public communication in Australia across a range of social media spaces.

With the project now getting underway in earnest (and we’ve already presented our methodology and early outcomes at a number of conferences), Jean and I have now set up Mapping Online Publics as a blog to cover our research methods and outcomes.

To get us going, I’ve already posted up a few articles from our look at the use of Twitter in the current Australian federal election campaign (both analysing topical comments, and outlining the methods we use to do so), and I’ll start backfilling the site with links to the relevant papers and presentations soon (those are already online here at snurb.info, of course).

So, keep an eye on the new blog – and we’d love to hear your feedback on our work!