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Snurb — Monday 23 December 2024 16:01

A Final Round-Up of Publications and Other Updates from 2024

Politics | Elections | Government | Polarisation | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Internet Technologies | 'Big Data' | Artificial Intelligence | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Facebook | Practice Mapping | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | QUT Digital Media Research Centre | ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | AANZCA 2024 | ACSPRI 2024 | AoIR 2024 | ECREA 2024 | ICA 2023 |

I disappeared on summer holidays pretty much immediately after my keynote on practice mapping at the ACSPRI conference in Sydney in late November, so I haven’t yet had a chance to round up my and our last few publications for the year (as well as a handful of early arrivals from 2025). And what a year it’s been – although it’s felt as if I’ve taken a more supportive than leading role these past few months, there have still been quite a few new developments, and a good lot more to come. I’ll group these thematically here:

 

Polarisation, Destructive

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Snurb — Friday 29 November 2024 15:49

Beyond Interaction Networks: An Introduction to Practice Mapping (ACSPRI 2024)

Politics | Elections | Government | Polarisation | Social Media | Facebook | Practice Mapping | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | ACSPRI 2024 |
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Snurb — Friday 29 November 2024 15:32

Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks (AANZCA 2024)

Politics | Government | Polarisation | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Facebook | Practice Mapping | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | AANZCA 2024 |
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Snurb — Friday 29 November 2024 09:39

Introducing Practice Mapping

Polarisation | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Facebook | Practice Mapping | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | ACSPRI 2024 |

I’m the next speaker at the ACSPRI 2024 conference, presenting our new practice mapping method for this study of multimodal networks. Slides are below:

Beyond Interaction Networks: An Introduction to Practice Mapping from Axel Bruns
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Snurb — Friday 29 November 2024 08:33

Assessing the Depth and Width of Deliberative Discussions Online

Politics | Elections | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | ACSPRI 2024 |

The second day at the ACSPRI 2024 conference dawns with a session on social network mapping, and starts with a paper by our wonderful conference chair Rob Ackland. This presents work on an international collaboration around technology and political communication, with a particular focus on social bots. This explores especially the potential for such bots to connect people with different ideas online, with the aim to improve public discourse.

This requires us, in the first place, to understand where discussion and deliberation are occurring in online spaces: deliberative conversations require both diversity (or representation of different ideas) and argumentation (a …

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Snurb — Wednesday 27 November 2024 11:56

The Meme Logics of Pro-White Racism Campaigns

Politics | Polarisation | Social Media | Twitter | AANZCA 2024 |

The final speaker in this AANZCA 2024 conference session is Mark Davis, whose focus is especially on the far-right ‘it’s okay to be white’ campaign. This originated on 4chan in the United States in 2017, but was endorsed in Australia also by Pauline Hanson, who asked the Senate to pass a motion endorsing it; it is preceded in its current form by Ku Klux Klan rhetoric and other far-right activism. On 4chan it first appeared in 2017.

From here, it turned into a hybrid online and offline campaign; it was endorsed by far-right celebrities including Milo Yiannopoulos, Mike Cernovich, and …

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Snurb — Monday 25 November 2024 16:17

A Brief Introduction to Practice Mapping

Politics | Polarisation | Social Media | Facebook | Practice Mapping | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | AANZCA 2024 |

The next presentation in this AANZCA 2024 conference session was mine, introducing our new practice mapping approach. Here are the slides:

Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks from Axel Bruns
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Snurb — Saturday 9 November 2024 17:35

Polarisation in Newssharing: Reviewing the Evidence from Facebook and Twitter (AoIR 2024)

Polarisation | Politics | ARC Future Fellowship | AoIR 2024 | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | Facebook | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Journalism | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter |
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Snurb — Saturday 2 November 2024 21:37

Assessing Partisanship and Polarisation at Various Stages of News Production and Engagement

Politics | Polarisation | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Internet Technologies | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | AoIR 2024 |

I presented in and chaired the Saturday morning session at the AoIR 2024 conference, which was on polarisation in news publishing and engagement, so no liveblogging this time. However, here are the slides from the three presentations that our various teams and I were involved in.

We started with my QUT DMRC colleague Laura Vodden, who discussed our plans for manual and automated content coding of news content for indicators of polarisation, and especially highlighted the surprising difficulties in getting access to quality and comprehensive news content data:

CHALLENGES IN ACQUIRING AND ANALYSING NEWS DATA AT SCALE.pptx from tastysiltstone

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Snurb — Saturday 2 November 2024 02:37

Ambient Distrust and Toxicity against Legacy Media on Twitter

Politics | Government | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | Twitter | AoIR 2024 |

The next speaker in this AoIR 2024 conference session is Marloes Geboer, whose focus is on ambient misogyny, distrust, and anti-press sentiment on Twitter. She is interested especially in the British ‘partygate’ scandal, which illustrates journalists’ growing entanglement with societal issues and topics on social media. Some 1500 #partygate tweets also targetted the BBC political journalist Laura Kuensberg, who was rumoured to have been present at the illegal parties held at 10 Downing Street during the COVID-19 lockdowns.

A definitive answer to this question is beside the point: the more important issue here is that this question was repeated frequently …

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