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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 — Saturday 9 November 2024 17:29

Polarisation via Search? Assessing the Political Spectrum of Google News Recommendations (AoIR 2024)

Polarisation | Politics | ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society | AoIR 2024 | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Internet Technologies |
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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 — Sunday 4 December 2022 01:31

Platform-Based Political Advertising: New Approaches for Enhancing Platform Observability (AoIR 2022)

Politics | Elections | Government | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Facebook | ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society | AoIR 2022 |
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Snurb — Tuesday 18 October 2022 05:44

Assessing the Personalisation of Australian Google News Results (ICA 2022)

Journalism | 'Big Data' | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society | ICA 2022 |
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Snurb — Thursday 12 May 2022 01:40

The COVID Election: Political Campaigning on Social Media in the 2022 Australian Federal Election (DCDPS 2022)

Politics | Elections | Government | Social Media | Facebook | Twitter | ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | Conferences |

DCDPS 2022

The COVID Election: Political Campaigning on Social Media in the 2022 Australian Federal Election

Axel Bruns, Daniel Angus, Timothy Graham, and Ehsan Dehghan

  • 9 May 2022 – Paper presented at the Digital Campaigning in Dissonant Public Spheres symposium, Villa La Collina, Cadenabbia, Italy

Presentation Slides

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Snurb — Monday 31 January 2022 16:18

Two More Presentations from 2021

Politics | Journalism | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society | Conferences |

Before we launch properly into 2022 and the new Australian Laureate Fellowship that will be the main focus of my year, I need to close the loop on two more talks I presented just before my summer holidays in December, and which are now online as videos.

On 26 November 2021, I had the pleasure to present some thoughts on Facebook’s week-long blanket ban of news content in Australia in an invited presentation at Griffith University’s Centre for Governance and Public Policy. My sincere thanks to Max Grömping and the rest of the CGPP team for hosting me. The talk …

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Snurb — Tuesday 4 January 2022 13:16

The Australian Search Experience Project (ADM+S 2021)

Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society | Conferences |
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Snurb — Tuesday 4 January 2022 12:56

Facebook's Australian News Ban and Its Implications for Critical Platform Studies (CGPP 2021)

Politics | Government | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | Facebook | ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society | Conferences |
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Snurb — Sunday 31 October 2021 16:41

Introducing the ADM+S Australian Search Experience Project

Internet Technologies | 'Big Data' | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society | Conferences |

I’ve not yet had the chance to write much about one of the major new projects I’m involved with: the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), a large-scale, multi-institutional, seven-year research centre that investigates the impact of automated decision-making technologies (including algorithms, artificial intelligence, and other such technologies) on all aspects of our personal and professional lives. In particular, for the first year of the Centre I’ve led the News & Media Focus Area, which recently held its inaugural symposium to take stock of current research projects and plan for the future. (This was …

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