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New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery)

New Media and Public Communication: Mapping Australian User-Created Content in Online Social Networks

Understanding the ways people contribute to and use the Internet for a wide range of purposes is important to Australia's future from both a social and an economic perspective. Effective, evidence-based policy depends on developing a vastly improved understanding of the current level of Australians' online activities and interests. This project provides crucial, detailed baseline data on the social, cultural and technological dynamics of Australian online public communication, which can inform further government initiatives to strengthen the country's digital economy and to maximise civic engagement through media participation.

ARC Discover Project, 2010-2012

Snurb — Friday 9 September 2011 02:13

Doing News Research on Twitter

Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | Twitter | Future of Journalism 2011 |

Cardiff.
Our own paper was next at the Future of Journalism conference. Here’s the presentation (and the full paper) – audio to follow soon, hopefully… now online, too.

New Methodologies for Researching News Discussion on Twitter

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Snurb — Monday 5 September 2011 04:25

New Methodologies for Researching News Discussion on Twitter (FoJ 2011)

Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | Twitter | Future of Journalism 2011 |

Future of Journalism conference (FoJ 2011)

New Methodologies for Researching News Discussion on Twitter

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess

  • 8 September 2011 – Future of Journalism conference, Cardiff
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Snurb — Monday 5 September 2011 00:19

Mapping Online Publics: Researching the Uses of Twitter (University of Amsterdam 2011)

Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | Crisis Communication | Twitter | Conferences |

Mapping Online Publics: Researching the Uses of Twitter

Axel Bruns

  • 1 September 2011 – Festive Opening of the New Media Season, University of Amsterdam
Mapping Online Publics: Researching the Uses of Twitter

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Snurb — Saturday 27 August 2011 09:32

The Use of Twitter Hashtags in the Formation of Ad Hoc Publics (ECPR 2011)

Politics | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | ECPR 2011 |

European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR 2011)

The Use of Twitter Hashtags in the Formation of Ad Hoc Publics

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess

  • 26 August 2011 – European Consortium for Political Research conference, Reykjavík
The Use of Twitter Hashtags in the Formation of Ad Hoc Publics

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As the use of Twitter has become more commonplace throughout many nations, its role in political discussion has also increased. This has been evident in contexts ranging from general political discussion through local, state, and national elections (such as in the 2010 Australian elections) to protests and other activist mobilisation (for example in the current uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen, as well as in the controversy around WikiLeaks).

Research into the use of Twitter in such political contexts has also developed rapidly, aided by substantial advancements in quantitative and qualitative methodologies for capturing, processing, analysing, and visualising Twitter updates by large groups of users. Recent work has especially highlighted the role of the Twitter hashtag – a short keyword, prefixed with the hash symbol ‘#’ – as a means of coordinating a distributed discussion between more or less large groups of users, who do not need to be connected through existing ‘follower’ networks.

Twitter hashtags – such as ‘#ausvotes’ for the 2010 Australian elections, ‘#londonriots’ for the coordination of information and political debates around the recent unrest in London, or ‘#wikileaks’ for the controversy around WikiLeaks thus aid the formation of ad hoc publics around specific themes and topics. They emerge from within the Twitter community – sometimes as a result of pre-planning or quickly reached consensus, sometimes through protracted debate about what the appropriate hashtag for an event or topic should be (which may also lead to the formation of competing publics using different hashtags).

Drawing on innovative methodologies for the study of Twitter content, this paper examines the use of hashtags in political debate in the context of a number of major case studies.

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Snurb — Saturday 27 August 2011 08:30

Making Sense of Twitter Hashtags as Ad Hoc Publics

Politics | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | ECPR 2011 |

Our paper was next at ECPR 2011 – and we presented our thoughts on the role of Twitter hashtags in providing a space for ad hoc online publics. This also builds on some of the work we’ve done during our week-long workshop at the University of Münster last week. I’ll add audio shortly Audio included below, PDF available here:

The Use of Twitter Hashtags in the Formation of Ad Hoc Publics

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Snurb — Wednesday 10 August 2011 10:00

Mapping Out the Next Few Months

Journalism | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | Twitter | Challenge Social Innovation 2011 | ECPR 2011 | Future of Journalism 2011 |

Following on from my previous post, here’s an overview of what’s to come. And there’s quite a bit: on Saturday, I’m heading off to Europe again for a series of conferences and research workshops – many of them related to our social media research work at Mapping Online Publics.

First, my colleagues Jean Burgess, Tanya Nitins, and I will spend a week or so at the University of Münster to work with our ATN-DAAD project partner Stefan Stieglitz and his team; we’re collaborating on a project which examines the use of Twitter for brand management. The project will examine …

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Snurb — Monday 8 August 2011 13:58

A Few Belated Additions

Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | Crisis Communication | Twitter | Conferences | ICE3 2007 | Teaching with Technology |

Hello, blog – it’s been a while. I’m afraid I’ve been a bit slack in updating this site with recent events, so I’ve just made a number of rather belated additions. I’m about to head off to Europe again soon to present at a number of conferences, too (more on that in a separate post shortly), so expect the usual conference blogging again then; for now, though, let’s catch up on some recent news.

Part of my tardiness here is related to the Mapping Online Publics project, which is incredibly active at the moment. It now combines our major ARC …

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Snurb — Monday 8 August 2011 12:16

Tracking Crises on Twitter: Analysing #qldfloods and #eqnz (EMC 2011)

Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | Crisis Communication | Twitter | Conferences |

Emergency Management Conference (EMC 2011)

Tracking Crises on Twitter: Analysing #qldfloods and #eqnz

Axel Bruns

  • 13 July 2011 – Emergency Management Conference, Melbourne
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Snurb — Monday 8 August 2011 12:06

Mapping Online Publics (C&T 2011)

Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | Crisis Communication | Twitter | Conferences |

Communities & Technologies 2011 (C&T 2011)

Mapping Online Publics

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess

  • 29 June 2011 – Communities & Technologies conference, Brisbane
Mapping Online Publics (Part 1)

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Snurb — Monday 8 August 2011 11:54

Twitter, Public Communication and the Media Ecology: The Case of the Queensland Floods (WAT 2011)

Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | Crisis Communication | Twitter | Conferences |

The World According to Twitter (WAT 2011)

Twitter, Public Communication and the Media Ecology:
The Case of the Queensland Floods

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess

  • 28 June 2011 – The World According to Twitter workshop, Brisbane
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