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Snurb — Tuesday 11 July 2017 13:02

Dynamics of a Scandal: The Centrelink Robodebt Affair on Twitter (ANZCA 2017)

Politics | Government | Social Media | TrISMA (ARC LIEF) | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | ANZCA 2017 |

ANZCA 2017

Dynamics of a Scandal: The Centrelink Robodebt Affair on Twitter

Axel Bruns, Brenda Moon, and Ehsan Dehghan

  • 7 July 2017 – Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference, Sydney
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Snurb — Friday 7 July 2017 13:16

From Talk-Back to Facebook Live: Politicians' Strategies for Bypassing Journalistic Scrutiny

Politics | Elections | Government | Journalism | Social Media | Streaming Media | ANZCA 2017 |

The final paper in this ANZCA 2017 session is presented by Caroline Fisher, whose focus is on Australian politicians' approaches to bypassing the scrutiny of the parliamentary press gallery. This is based on a set of 87 interviews with key media actors from the Howard era, including the former Prime Minister himself, as well as on an analysis of the social media activities of five Australian political leaders and interviews with their press secretaries.

Politicians have always sought to control the information flows that cover their activities; through social media they have become more easily able to bypass conventional journalistic …

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Snurb — Friday 7 July 2017 12:35

How the #notmydebt Campaign Played Out on Twitter

Politics | Government | Social Media | Twitter | ANZCA 2017 |

The next paper in this ANZCA 2017 session is by my colleagues Brenda Moon, Ehsan Dehghan, and me, and I'm presenting it, so I won't liveblog it, of course. Below are the slides, though:

Dynamics of a Scandal: The Centrelink Robodebt Affair on Twitter from Axel Bruns
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Snurb — Friday 7 July 2017 12:29

Everyday Political Talk about Housing Affordability on Facebook Pages

Politics | Government | Journalism | Social Media | ANZCA 2017 |

The next paper in this ANZCA 2017 session is presented by Ariadne Vromen, whose focus is on debates of housing affordability on Facebook. Social media are of course being used for everyday political talk, but the private pages of individuals are very difficult to observe effectively, and for good reason. But the Facebook pages of mainstream media outlets serve as a kind of intermediary, semi-public spaces for such talk; here, it is possible to observe engagement, interactions, and sentiment, as well as reactions to media framing of current issues.

Housing affordability is a major political issue in Australia, especially …

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Snurb — Friday 7 July 2017 12:07

Malcolm Turnbull's Twitter Conversations about the NBN

Politics | Internet Technologies | Social Media | Twitter | ANZCA 2017 |

The final paper session at ANZCA 2017 starts with Caroline Fisher and Glen Fuller, whose focus is on Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's conversations about the National Broadband Network project on Twitter. Turnbull was a comparatively early adopter of social media, and one of the big challenges in becoming PM was whether he would continue to use Twitter in the way he had before, or would lapse into a more broadcast-oriented tweeting style.

Turnbull's social media activities can be understood as an attempt at authentic engagement, and he has at times engaged in real conversation with interlocutors on the …

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Snurb — Thursday 6 July 2017 12:37

The Project and Its Attempts to Initiate Connective Action

Politics | Social Media | Twitter | ANZCA 2017 | Television |

The third paper in this ANZCA 2017 session is by Stephen Harrington, Tim Highfield, and me, and I'm including our presentation slides below. We explore the #milkeddry campaign initiated by Australian news entertainment TV show The Project.

Infotainment and the Impact of Connective Action: The Case of #MilkedDry from Axel Bruns

The Project, which has been running on Network Ten since 2009, combines panel discussion on current news and entertainment matters with celebrity interviews and comedy; it is influenced in part by overseas formats addressing a young adult audience, like The Daily Show, but also clearly distinct …

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Snurb — Thursday 6 July 2017 12:36

Studying Connective Action from an International Perspective

Politics | Social Media | ANZCA 2017 |

The second speakers in this ANZCA 2017 session are Andrea Carson and Luke Heemsbergen, who continue our discussion of connective political action from an international perspective. This presentation emerges from the work of the Political Organisations and Participation group in the Australian Political Studies Association (APSA). There is an overall perspective of a move away from traditional modes of engagement to a more flexible, citizen-initiated and policy-oriented engagement with politics. This has also changed practices of organisation and mobilisation to political action.

One dimension of this is also the use of particular platforms for activism; these are often corporate-controlled, or …

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Snurb — Thursday 6 July 2017 12:36

Assessing the Successes of Destroy the Joint

Politics | Social Media | ANZCA 2017 |

The first paper session at ANZCA 2017 begins with Jenna Price, who asks what winning looks like in the conduct of activist campaigns through social media; she focusses here especially on her own Destroy the Joint campaign. This was created in August 2012 and campaigns on violence against women and related issues, and was sparked by radio announcer Alan Jones's persistent, deeply misogynistic attacks on then-Prime Minister Julia Gillard at the time; it has since amassed a considerable follower base on Facebook and Twitter.

This may be seen as an example of connective action, as described by Bennett and …

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Snurb — Thursday 6 July 2017 10:48

Understanding the Rise of Populist Politics

Politics | Journalism | Social Media | ANZCA 2017 |

The second ANZCA 2017 keynote this morning is by Silvio Waisbord, who shifts our focus to the recent resurgence of populist politics around the world. We must study such populism beyond electoral results, however, reviewing broader structural trends in public communication, connecting to other structures and events, and identifying built-in trends that are conducive to the communicative politics that populism represents. What questions, then, should we ask about populism, communication, and the media?

Approaches to this include research into media effects; studies of specific types of news content; investigations of the features of populist discourse; retracings of media (industry) developments …

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Snurb — Wednesday 5 July 2017 17:12

Assessing the Online Distribution of 'Fake News'

Journalism | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Twitter | ANZCA 2017 |

The final speaker in this ANZCA 2017 session is Scott Wright, who presents the framework for a new study on 'fake news'. He begins by asking whether there is a 'fake news' problem in Australia: the country is highly politically polarised, with decreasing satisfaction in the conventional party system; online news plays a crucial role in how citizens inform themselves; and the mainstream media system is highly concentrated. In this environment, is there still a functioning marketplace of ideas?

It is necessary, then, to study the nature, virality, and impact of 'fake news', but also the media coverage of such …

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