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Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship)

ARC Laureate Fellowship, 2022-26

Snurb — Friday 14 July 2023 07:23

A Quartet of New Articles: Public Sphere, Platform Policy, Polarisation, and Social Media Data

Politics | Government | Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | ICA 2023 |

Now that the ICA 2023 and IAMCR 2023 conferences are over and I’m back in Brisbane with a little time before the next round of conferences (ECREA PolCom in Berlin in August, Future of Journalism in Cardiff in September, and AoIR in Philadelphia in October), I’m finally finding some time to update this blog with some new publications as well – in addition to the various conference presentations and papers I already shared in previous posts.

First, I’m really pleased to have published a conceptual article in a special issue of the Communication Theory journal that was edited by …

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Snurb — Wednesday 12 July 2023 06:20

Affective Polarisation in the Facebook Posts of Danish and Brazilian Political Leaders

Politics | Elections | Polarisation | Social Media | Facebook | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | IAMCR 2023 |

And the last speaker in this IAMCR 2023 session is my colleague Sebastian Svegaard, presenting one of the research projects within my Australian Laureate Fellowship project. Here are his slides:

Affective polarisation in the communication of political leaders in Brazil and Denmark from Svegaard1

This project examined the Brazilian and Danish elections of 2022, with particular focus on the leading contenders in each election: Bolsonaro and Lula in Brazil, and Ellemann-Jensen and Frederiksen in Denmark. We collected the Facebook posts by these leaders, using CrowdTangle, and engaged in a manual coding (by a Brazilian and a Dane) of these posts …

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Snurb — Wednesday 12 July 2023 06:16

Four Dimensions for the Empirical Assessment of Polarisation

Politics | Polarisation | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | IAMCR 2023 |

My presentation was up next at IAMCR 2023, and outlines the overall agenda of my current Australian Laureate Fellowship project. Here are the slides:

Towards a New Empiricism: Polarisation across Four Dimensions from Axel Bruns
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Snurb — Sunday 9 July 2023 05:41

Towards a New Empiricism: Polarisation across Four Dimensions (IAMCR 2023)

Politics | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | IAMCR 2023 | Journalism | Social Media |
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Snurb — Sunday 9 July 2023 05:27

Destructive Political Polarisation in the Context of Digital Communication – A Critical Literature Review and Conceptual Framework (ICA 2023)

Politics | Journalism | Social Media | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | ICA 2023 |
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Snurb — Sunday 9 July 2023 05:22

Affective Polarisation in Political Leaders' Discourses: A Comparison between Australia, Brazil, Denmark, and Perú (ICA 2023)

Politics | Elections | Government | Filesharing | Social Media | Twitter | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | ICA 2023 |
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Snurb — Sunday 9 July 2023 05:14

Networks of Agonism and Antagonism: Polarised Discourses about COP26 (and COP27) on Twitter (ICA 2023)

Politics | Government | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | ICA 2023 |
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Snurb — Friday 7 July 2023 19:24

A Clutch of Presentations from ICA 2023

Politics | Government | Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | Publications | ICA 2023 |

Following on from the videos I shared in the previous post, here’s a round-up of a few recent presentations. These are all from the 2023 International Communication Association conference in Toronto, and mostly from my Laureate Fellowship project on polarisation and partisanship.

And coming up shortly: our presentations and my liveblogging from IAMCR 2023 in Lyon!

But back to Toronto: first, my colleague Sebastian Svegaard presented our study of political leaders’ posts across four national elections at an ICA pre-conference on comparative research over time, across platforms, and across nations – and we focussed especially on that cross-national comparison. The …

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Snurb — Wednesday 28 June 2023 15:59

Future-Proofing the Public Sphere (CDDGG 2023)

Politics | Journalism | Social Media | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | Conferences |
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Snurb — Wednesday 28 June 2023 15:50

The Filter in Our (?) Heads: Digital Media and Polarisation (CDDGG 2023)

Politics | Journalism | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | Conferences |
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