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Snurb — Thursday 18 April 2019 05:26

Echo Chambers, Filter Bubbles, Gatewatching: Some Presentations on Recent and Upcoming Books

Politics | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | Publications |

As a conclusion to my brief trip to Germany this April, I had the opportunity to present some of my current work to the newly established Center for Advanced Internet Studies, a collaborative institution involving several of the leading universities in North Rhine-Westphalia. I used this as a chance to present the general argument of my recent book Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere (Peter Lang, 2018), as well as the key ideas of a new book, Are Filter Bubbles Real?, which is slated for release by Polity in July 2019.

The latter …

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Snurb — Wednesday 17 April 2019 22:57

Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism and Social Media (CAIS 2019)

Politics | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) |
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Snurb — Wednesday 17 April 2019 22:53

Are Filter Bubbles Real? (CAIS 2019)

Politics | Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship |
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Snurb — Wednesday 17 April 2019 17:54

‘Fake News’ in the 2019 EU Election?

Politics | Elections | Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Social Media Analytics in Society and Crisis Communication (RISE_SMA) |

A quick update from on the road: I’m currently in Germany, where I’ve participated in the kick-off meeting for a new EU-funded project on social media analytics in society and crisis communication that is led by Stefan Stieglitz from the University of Duisburg-Essen – more on this as the project develops, no doubt.

But before that meeting I also had the opportunity to participate in a press briefing organised by the Science Media Center in Germany, which makes scholarly research more visible to journalists: this was to discuss the likelihood of disinformation campaigns in the lead-up to the European Union …

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Snurb — Sunday 4 November 2018 01:34

The Need for Journalism to Respond to the Issue of ‘Fake News’

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | ECREA 2018 |

The final speaker at this ECREA 2018 session is my QUT colleague Aljosha Karim Schapals, who shifts our focus to the vexing question of ‘fake news’. However we define such content, it appears to have had a considerable effect on recent events, and some of the most shared stories on Facebook in recent years have been revealed as mis- or disinformation.

There are also a number of dedicated Websites that have been set up to peddle ‘fake news’, and these are often immensely active at generating and disseminating new content. Such sites are also relevant to our study of Journalism …

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Snurb — Sunday 4 November 2018 01:20

Twitter Interaction Patterns of Leading Australian, German, and U.K. Political Journalists

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | ECREA 2018 |

Up next in our ECREA 2018 panel is Christian Nuernbergk, who presents our work on the social media activities of journalists; the slides are embedded below. We are interested here in how journalists have incorporated social media like Twitter into their professional toolkits, but also in how audiences engage with them and how journalists respond in turn (if indeed they do). Studies of how ordinary Twitter users engage with journalists on an everyday basis are especially rare still.


A cross-national comparison of Twitter user interactions with leading political journalists from Christian Nuernbergk


We focus here on Australia, Germany, and the …

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Snurb — Sunday 4 November 2018 01:04

Journalists’ Discursive Construction of Boundaries

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | ECREA 2018 |

The next speaker in our ECREA 2018 panel is Folker Hanusch, who shifts our focus to how journalists construct and uphold their professional boundaries through discursive means. Such boundary work remains prominent because of the entry of a range of new journalistic or para-journalistic outlets and amateur or semi-amateur practitioners into the field of news coverage, and rather than developing normative theoretical definitions of journalism it is important to examine how journalists themselves draw the line between themselves and other professional and non-professional news workers, and how they themselves reflect on the ideologies of journalism.

To date the project has …

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Snurb — Sunday 4 November 2018 00:44

Emerging Models for News at the Periphery of German Journalism

Politics | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | ECREA 2018 |

We’re in the final panel at ECREA 2018, and it’s the panel presenting the work of our ARC Discovery project Journalism beyond the Crisis, which triangulated between the self-perceptions of journalists in Australia, Germany, and the U.K., their observable social media engagement, and the existing and emerging landscape of news outlets in these countries. The first paper in the panel is presented by Julia Conrad and also involves Christoph Neuberger, and explores emerging news content providers at the periphery of conventional journalism in Germany.

As the boundaries of journalism continue to move and perhaps dissolve, there is an …

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Snurb — Saturday 3 November 2018 21:07

Sexism in News Satire Portrayals of the Romanian PM

Politics | Journalism | ECREA 2018 |

The final speaker in this ECREA 2018 session is Denise-Adriana Oprea, whose focus is on the representations of the Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dăncilă in satirical news sites; this is especially interesting as Romania for the first time has a female PM. She has, however, been accused of being a mere puppet of her party, and this has also been a persistent theme in satirical portrayals.

The project examined these portrayals, in text and visuals, across a number of news satire sites: do these override or reinforce the stereotypical portrayal of female politicians, and are they in line with the …

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Snurb — Saturday 3 November 2018 20:44

European Governments’ Communication about Brexit in Online and Social Media

Politics | Government | Social Media | ECREA 2018 |

The next speaker in this ECREA 2018 session is Holger Sievert, whose interest is in the European public sphere. There are now some decades of criticism that suggests that the development of that public sphere is lagging behind other forms of European integration, and such criticism has now also increasingly focussed on online and digital media.

This missing European public sphere has also been blamed as one driver of the U.K.’s recent Brexit vote: without a European public sphere there are few fora available to counteract the negative discussion about the European Union that may be taking place in national …

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