I’ve had the pleasure of being featured in the latest round of QUT research promo videos, discussing our QUT Digital Media Research Centre research into polarisation, partisanship, mis- and disinformation, and other topics, and including the work emerging from my current Australian Laureate Fellowship project. Also featured are my excellent DMRC colleagues Ehsan Dehghan and Kate O’Connor-Farfan, and if you look closely there’s also a plug for my recent book Are Filter Bubbles Real?
I think this came out quite nicely:
And along with other research leaders around the university, I also appeared in our latest university-wide promotional video. Don’t you just hate it when people finish your sentences for you? Seriously, though, this is a great overview of the breadth of research going on around the place…
It’s Wednesday, I think, and I’ve made it from AoIR in Philadelphia to the COMNEWS 2023 conference in Bali, Indonesia, where I’m giving one of the opening keynotes this morning. Here are the slides:
The early morning session this Friday at AoIR 2023 that I’m in starts with a paper by my QUT DMRC colleague Sebastian Svegaard. He presents a case study of what happens when politicians behave badly – and how their political fan bases respond to this. This connects with a larger body of work which connects fandom and political research, and positions politics as fandom.
I am presenting the next paper in this ECREA PolCom 2023 conference, providing a brief overview of our Laureate Fellowship project on the drivers and dynamics of polarisation and partisanship. Here are the slides: