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Snurb — Thursday 6 October 2016 18:02

Twitter and the Bill Cosby Scandal

Social Media | Twitter | AoIR 2016 |

The final speaker in this AoIR 2016 session is Karen Assmann, whose interest is in the social media coverage of the Bill Cosby scandal. Allegations about Cosby's behaviour had been circulating since the mid-2000s, but these were not widely investigated by journalists at the time (and the court material at the time was sealed after an out-of-court settlement); some journalists have questioned whether they have failed in pursuing this story.

The story blew up again in 2015 after a video discussing the allegations went viral on Twitter, and was picked up on Buzzfeed; eventually the UK's Daily Mail …

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Snurb — Thursday 6 October 2016 17:43

Newssharing on Twitter

Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | AoIR 2016 |

The first proper day of AoIR 2016 begins with a paper that I'm involved in, along with a host of colleagues from Australia, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. We cover patterns in newssharing across these countries, and I'll add the slides for our presentation below as soon as I can the slides for our presentation are below now.

 

News Sharing on Twitter: A Nationally Comparative Study from Axel Bruns
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Snurb — Thursday 6 October 2016 04:20

Towards the Platform Society

Internet Technologies | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Intellectual Property | AoIR 2016 |

After an exciting workshop day, we're now starting AoIR 2016 proper with the opening keynote by José van Dijck from the University of Amsterdam. She begins by noting the work of Tarleton Gillespie on the politics of online platforms, which has been very influential in Internet studies in recent years. Internet platforms are now intricately interwoven in a technical, commercial, and social ecosystem, with a number of leading platforms serving as the major gateways to that ecosystem.

But new platforms are constantly emerging, to systematically connect people to things, ideas, and money. These platforms penetrate all aspects of our public …

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Snurb — Wednesday 5 October 2016 17:56

Situating Digital Methods

Blogs and Blogging | Internet Technologies | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | Internet Content Preservation | QUT Digital Media Research Centre | AoIR 2016 |

Our Digital Methods pre-conference workshop at AoIR 2016, combining presenters from the Digital Methods Initiative at the University of Amsterdam and the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology starts with a presentation by Richard Rogers on the recent history of digital methods. He points out the gradual transition from a conceptualisation of the Internet and the Web as cyberspace or as a virtual space to an understanding of the Web as inherently linked with the 'real' world: online rather than offline becomes the baseline, and there is an increasing sense of online groundedness.

In the process …

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Snurb — Friday 30 September 2016 19:35

Some Talks in Oslo ahead of AoIR 2016 in Berlin

Travel | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Industrial Journalism | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | TrISMA (ARC LIEF) | Twitter | Research Projects | ARC Future Fellowship | AoIR 2016 |

I’m on my way to Berlin for this year’s Association of Internet Researchers conference, which will be one of our biggest yet – but on my way I’ve also swung by Oslo to visit my colleagues in the Social Media and Agenda-Setting in Election Campaigns (SAC) project which is now coming to its conclusion. While there I gave a couple of invited talks on my recent research – and the slides from those presentations are now available here.

First, I visited Anders Larsson at Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology, where I outlined my thoughts on what …

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Snurb — Friday 30 September 2016 19:13

Analysing the Norwegian Twittersphere

'Big Data' | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | TrISMA (ARC LIEF) | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship |

Forskningsdagene 2016

Analysing the Norwegian Twittersphere

Axel Bruns

  • 28 Sep. 2016 – Forskningsdagene, Norwegian National Gallery, Oslo
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Snurb — Friday 30 September 2016 03:00

How the Person in the Street Became a Journalist: Social Media and the Second Wave of Citizen Journalism

Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Blogs and Blogging | Social Media | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | Publications |

ACT Talks 2016

How the Person in the Street Became a Journalist: Social Media and the Second Wave of Citizen Journalism

Axel Bruns

  • 27 Sep. 2016 – Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology, Oslo
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Snurb — Thursday 14 July 2016 01:28

The Experience of Social Time in Mobile Dating Apps

Social Media | SM&S 2016 |

The (very) final speaker at Social Media and Society is Dominic Yeo, whose focus is on mobile dating apps. Such apps have fully arrived in recent years, and are now also incorporating geolocation functionality, for instance. Such apps have been studied from a number of angles, but the dimension of time has been largely ignored: how does the concept of social time affect these mobile-enhanced dating practices?

Aspects of this include tempo, duration, sequence, and timing, and all of these shape the subjective experience of social interactions. Dominic's work has focussed especially on young adult, mostly Chinese and gay-identified app …

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Snurb — Thursday 14 July 2016 01:10

Gender Biases in the Social Sharing of Academic Research

Social Media | SM&S 2016 |

The next speaker at Social Media and Society is Stefanie Haustein, who begins by highlighting the substantial gender gap in academia – especially at higher levels of employment, but also in academic publishing and citation patterns. Similarly, there was a substantial gender gap online, at least early on, and this has balanced out only in relatively recent times, especially also since the advent of social media (with some social media platforms very substantially female-dominated).

Male academics still have a greater Web presence, and are more likely to blog (sorry); also, more scientific papers are tweeted by men, even …

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Snurb — Thursday 14 July 2016 00:47

Visual Self-Portrayals of Athletes on Social Media

Social Media | SM&S 2016 |

The final session at Social Media and Society is starting with Ann Pegoraro and Ashleigh-Jane Thompson, whose interest is in the visual coverage and self-presentation of athletes on social media. This can be linked to Goffman's ideas of backstage and frontstage performance, and also tends to play out quite differently depending on the athlete's gender.

This study selected a number of sports (male- and female-dominated, as well as gender-neutral), and examined the visual portrayal of athletes on their Instagram profiles, coding for a number of aspects (focus of the photo, categories of portrayal, and gender role).

Some 75% of all …

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