I'm travelling again, on a trip that will take me to the 25th anniversary of the Center for Internet Studies in Aarhus, the 20th anniversary of the Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- und Informationsforschung in Bremen, the Search Engines and Society 2025 conference in Hamburg, and the AoIR 2025 conference in Niterói, amongst a few other destinations – but my first stop has been Brussels, where I was delighted to participate in Nathalie van Raemdonck's PhD defence at IMEC-SMIT, and to be the inaugural speaker in a new seminar series of the Brussels Institute for Advanced Studies (BrIAS).
In my talk I covered my and my Laureate team's journey from the debunking of the 'echo chamber' and 'filter bubbles' myths to our focus on partisanship and polarisation, discussed our concept of destructive polarisation, and introduced our new methodological framework of practice mapping as a new approach to the analysis of polarised public debates on social media platforms. I'm pleased to say that the talk was recorded, and I've included the video here; the full slides from the presentation are available too.
Up next on my journey is the Center for Internet Studies in Aarhus, where I'm honoured to present one of the keynotes in its 25th anniversary conference. More on that later this week.
