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Snurb — Monday 31 December 2012 15:03

A Final 2012 Publications Round-Up

Politics | Elections | Produsers and Produsage | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Blogs and Blogging | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Social Media in Times of Crisis (ARC Linkage) | Social Media Network Mapping | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | Crisis Communication | Twitter | Publications | Conferences | Television |

As we’re hurtling down the last few hours towards 2013, it seems like a good idea to take stock of what was an incredibly busy 2012. Here, then, is a round-up of all (I think) of my publications and presentations for the year, organised into loose thematic categories. In all, and with my various collaborators from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation and beyond, I seem to have generated some 4 book chapters, 12 journal articles, 22 conference presentations and one major report – and that’s not counting various articles in The Guardian, The Conversation …

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Snurb — Friday 2 November 2012 19:25

Making Sense of Twitter: New Research Methods in the Digital Humanities (UQDHS 2012)

'Big Data' | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | Twitter | Conferences |

UQ Digital Humanities Symposium 2012

Making Sense of Twitter: New Research Methods in the Digital Humanities

Axel Bruns

  • 2 Nov. 2012 – Digital Humanities Symposium, University of Queensland, Brisbane

Making Sense of Twitter: New Research Methods in the Digital Humanities from Axel Bruns

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Snurb — Friday 2 November 2012 12:47

Twitter, Big Data, and the Digital Humanities

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

From the excitement of AoIR and ECREA 2012, I’ve arrived back in Australia – and have gone on almost directly to another presentation, this time at the University of Queensland Digital Humanities Symposium, where this morning I presented our research on Twitter as an example of the more general push towards ‘digital humanities’ and ‘big data’ research. Here are my slides and audio from the event – many thanks to Kerry Kilner and Peta Mitchell for the invitation to speak.

Making Sense of Twitter: New Research Methods in the Digital Humanities from Axel Bruns
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Snurb — Saturday 27 October 2012 18:37

Political Agenda-Setting on Twitter in Norway

Politics | Journalism | Social Media | Twitter | ECREA 2012 |

The third speaker in this ECREA 2012 session (I'm afraid Blogsy swallowed my notes on John Downey's very interesting presentation on the BBC's coverage of the Arab Spring – sorry) is Ingrid Dahlen Rogstad, whose interest is in the role of Twitter in political agenda-setting in Norway. Can new mediaspheres challenge the dominance of conventional media gatekeeping practices? This is also a question about how new media and mainstream mediaspheres overlap, of course.

Ingrid engaged in a manual coding of mainstream and online media news as well as of the 1,500 most retweeted tweets during a specific time period; she …

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Snurb — Saturday 27 October 2012 18:33

'Social Media Revolution' Myths in German Magazines' Arab Spring Coverage

Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | Crisis Communication | Twitter | ECREA 2012 |

The next session at ECREA 2012 begins at a more reasonable time, and is on news representations of foreign affairs. Melanie Magin begins by presenting on the mass media representation of the Arab Spring as a 'social media revolution'. This is an overstatement, of course, driven by the mass media's focus on social media in their coverage.

Such coverage in turn also feeds back to the protesters themselves, becoming a self-fulfilling fiction. The myth is aided by the fact that few people outside the region had direct access to the protests, enabling the perpetuation of the myth. As such myths …

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Snurb — Saturday 27 October 2012 00:42

Police Activities on Twitter during the London and UK Riots

Social Media | Crisis Communication | Twitter | ECREA 2012 |

The final speaker in this ECREA 2012 session is Rob Procter, who shifts our attention to the London and UK riots in August 2011. His project collected some 2.6 million tweets from some 700,000 accounts using relevant hashtags from the Twitter firehose, and combines quantitative and qualitative analysis.

A corpus of tweets consists of tweets and retweets, and the tracking of retweets provides us with a clear identification of information flows, and enables a ranking of content by how far it flowed over time. Many of the longest information flows (the most retweeted messages) were for post-riot cleanup messages, especially …

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Snurb — Friday 26 October 2012 23:03

Twitter and Brand Crises

Social Media | Crisis Communication | Twitter | ECREA 2012 |

The next ECREA 2012 paper is presented by Nina Krüger, and focusses on brand communication activities during corporate crises. Enterprises are increasingly using social media for communication with their customers, of course, but to some extent still regard social media as black boxes; much more development – and research – needs to be done here.

Research on brand communication covers both day-to-day communication and issue-related communication, but much of this is still in its infancy; the patterns of communication around brands are still poorly understood. It seems that tweets containing URLs are retweeted more widely than others, for example; also …

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Snurb — Friday 26 October 2012 22:59

Twitter during Floods and Earthquakes

Social Media | Social Media in Times of Crisis (ARC Linkage) | Crisis Communication | Twitter | ECREA 2012 |

The next presentation in this ECREA 2012 session is my co-authored paper with Jean Burgess on our research into the uses of Twitter in the 2011 Queensland floods and Christchurch earthquake. The slides are below, and audio will follow soon. I'm afraid the audio recording didn't work out. Feel free to listen to some of my other presentations on social media and crisis communication instead...

Analysing Twitter Activity in Crisis Contexts from Axel Bruns

 

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Snurb — Friday 26 October 2012 22:58

London Met Police Strategies for Twitter Use

Social Media | Crisis Communication | Twitter | ECREA 2012 |

The next ECREA 2012 session is on social media and crisis communication, and I have my final paper for this trip in this session as well. We start with Farida Vis, though, whose focus is on the use of Twitter by the London Metropolitan Police. This relates also to the emergence of data journalism, to the work to understand the positioning of Twitter in the wider mediasphere, and to the overall interest in the 'big data' question which has grown over the last year or so. All of this is related to issues of surveillance, user profiling, and other data …

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Snurb — Friday 26 October 2012 19:17

Tweeting le Tour: Connecting the Tour de France’s Global Audience through Twitter (ECREA 2012)

Social Media | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | Twitter | ECREA 2012 | Television |

ECREA 2012

Tweeting le Tour: Connecting the Tour de France’s Global Audience through Twitter

Tim Highfield, Axel Bruns, and Stephen Harrington

  • 26 Oct. 2012 – European Communication Conference, Copenhagen

Tweeting le Tour: Connecting the Tour de France’s global audience through Twitter from Tim Highfield

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