Sorry: it’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog. Largely, that’s because I’ve been so busy with our work on the Mapping Online Publics project – see the project blog for all the latest information. Following the various natural disasters we’ve endured – in Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, to begin with –, that work has focussed for the moment especially on the use of social media for crisis communication, with plenty of outcomes already. In particular, this includes our two most recent presentations:

• “Social Media Use in the Queensland Floods”, at the Eidos symposium in Brisbane on 4 April 2011
• “Tracking Crises on Twitter: Analysing #qldfloods and #eqnz”, at the Emergency Media and Public Affairs conference in Canberra on 12 April 2011

Slides and audio from both presentations are now online here – just follow the links above.