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Snurb — Saturday 24 April 2021 14:43

A Round-Up of New Publications

Politics | Produsers and Produsage | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Crisis Communication | Twitter | QUT Digital Media Research Centre | Amplifying Public Value: Scholarly Contributions’ Impact on Public Debate (ARC Linkage) | ARC Future Fellowship | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | Publications | AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2019 |

Without in-person conferences to liveblog, this site has been a little quiet recently. But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t any news to report – so here is the first of a number of posts with updates on recent activities. First of all, I’m very pleased that a number of articles I’ve contributed to have finally been published over the past few months – and in particular, that they represent the results of a range of collaborations with new and old colleagues.

The first of these is a new book chapter led by my QUT Digital Media Research Centre colleague …

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Snurb — Saturday 24 April 2021 13:22

Are Filter Bubbles Real? (Media Futures 2021)

Politics | Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Facebook | Twitter |

Media Futures 2021

Are Filter Bubbles Real?

Axel Bruns

  • 16 Apr. 2021 – invited presentation to Media Futures Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology and Innovation, Bergen, Norway
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Snurb — Saturday 24 April 2021 13:04

Social Media and the News: Approaches to the Spread of (Mis)information (Integrity 2021)

Politics | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | QUT Digital Media Research Centre | ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | Integrity 2021 |

Integrity 2021

Social Media and the News: Approaches to the Spread of (Mis)information

Axel Bruns

  • 12 Mar. 2021 – Integrity 2021: Integrity in Social Networks and Media workshop at the 14th ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) in Jerusalem, Israel
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Snurb — Saturday 24 April 2021 12:48

Soziale Medien, Massenmedien, offizielle Stellungnahmen: Umgang mit Desinformationen am Beispiel der COVID/5G-Verschwörungstheorien (PolKomm 2021)

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Facebook | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | PolKomm 2021 |

PolKomm 2021

Soziale Medien, Massenmedien, offizielle Stellungnahmen: Umgang mit Desinformationen am Beispiel der COVID/5G-Verschwörungstheorien

Axel Bruns (with Edward Hurcombe and Stephen Harrington)

  • 12 Feb. 2021 – invited keynote at the PolKomm 2021 conference, online
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Snurb — Saturday 24 April 2021 12:34

#ArsonEmergency: Climate Change Disinformation during the Australian Bushfire Season 2019-2020 (AoIR 2020)

Politics | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Crisis Communication | Twitter | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | AoIR 2020 |

AoIR 2020

#ArsonEmergency: Climate Change Disinformation during the Australian Bushfire Season 2019-2020

Tobias R. Keller, Tim Graham, Dan Angus, and Axel Bruns

  • 27-31 Oct. 2020 – Association of Internet Researchers 2020 conference, online
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Snurb — Thursday 23 July 2020 12:39

Does 'Fake News' Travel Faster than 'Real News'? (Spoiler: No.)

Politics | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | SM&S 2020 |

The COVID-19 online edition of the wonderful Social Media & Society conference has just started, and my colleague Tobias Keller and I are presenting our latest research via a YouTube video that has now been released. In our study we examine the average dissemination curves for news articles from mainstream and fringe news sources; this analysis is prompted by the persistent media framing of past research as (supposedly) showing that ‘fake news’ disseminates more quickly than ‘real news’.

Leaving aside such disputed labels, we find no evidence of any systematic differences in dissemination speeds on Twitter: during 2019, for …

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Snurb — Thursday 23 July 2020 12:17

News Diffusion on Twitter: Comparing the Dissemination Careers for Mainstream and Marginal News (SM&S 2020)

Politics | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | SM&S 2020 |

Social Media & Society 2020

News Diffusion on Twitter: Comparing the Dissemination Careers for Mainstream and Marginal News

Axel Bruns and Tobias Keller

  • 22 July 2020 – Social Media & Society 2020 conference, online
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Snurb — Tuesday 21 July 2020 11:55

We Need to Talk about... COVID-19, the Media and Fake News (UQ 2020)

Politics | Conferences | Facebook | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | Journalism | Social Media | Twitter | ‘Fake News’ |
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Snurb — Monday 20 July 2020 14:43

Are Filter Bubbles Real? (WSU 2019)

Politics | Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship |

Digital Humanities Research Group

Are Filter Bubbles Real?

Axel Bruns

  • 22 May 2019 – Digital Humanities Research Group, Western Sydney University
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Snurb — Friday 22 May 2020 16:42

Sharing, Spamming, Sockpuppeting (ICA 2020)

Politics | ARC Future Fellowship | ICA 2020 | Industrial Journalism | Journalism | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | ‘Fake News’ | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) |
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