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Snurb — Sunday 3 October 2021 15:17

Sharing Uncertain Science: Mapping the Circulation of COVID-19 Preprint Research Reported in The Conversation on Facebook (ANZCA 2021)

Journalism | Social Media | Facebook | Amplifying Public Value: Scholarly Contributions’ Impact on Public Debate (ARC Linkage) | Global Journalism Innovation Lab (SSHRC) | ANZCA 2021 |
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Snurb — Sunday 3 October 2021 15:06

From the Fringes to the Mainstream: How COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Spread across Social and Mainstream Media (ANZCA 2021)

Politics | Government | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Facebook | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | ANZCA 2021 |
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Snurb — Sunday 3 October 2021 15:02

‘Fake News’ on Facebook: A Longitudinal Analysis of Link Sharing between 2016 and 2021 (ANZCA 2021)

Politics | Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | ANZCA 2021 |
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Snurb — Sunday 3 October 2021 14:37

Shareworthiness and Motivated Reasoning in Hyper-Partisan News Sharing Behavior on Twitter (ICA 2021)

Politics | Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Twitter | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | Social Media Analytics in Society and Crisis Communication (RISE_SMA) | ICA 2021 |
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Snurb — Sunday 3 October 2021 14:23

Covering Conspiracy: Mainstream and Fringe Reporting of the COVID/5G Conspiracy Theory (ICA 2021)

Politics | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | Facebook | ICA 2021 | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | ‘Fake News’ |
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Snurb — Sunday 2 May 2021 13:38

An Update on Recent Presentations

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | QUT Digital Media Research Centre | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | AoIR 2020 | Integrity 2021 | PolKomm 2021 |

Last week I posted a round-up of the latest publications from my QUT DMRC colleagues and me, listing nine new journal articles and book chapters from our various research projects – investigating mis- and disinformation sharing (in general, and related to the COVID-19 pandemic), analysing the dynamics of polarised online discourses, debunking the idea of echo chambers and filter bubbles, mapping social networks, and examining the evolution of journalistic practices.

This week, I’ll do the same for some of my and our recent presentations. As opportunities for in-person events remain very limited under the current circumstances, most of these have …

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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 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 — Monday 3 August 2020 13:49

More ‘Fake News’ Research, and a PhD Opportunity!

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

For those of you who have access to Australian television, this is an advance warning that the research on coronavirus-related mis- and disinformation that my colleagues and I at the QUT Digital Media Research Centre have conducted during the first half of this year will be featured prominently in tonight’s episode of the ABC’s investigative journalism programme Four Corners, which focusses on 5G conspiracy theories. A preview is below, and I hope that the full programme may also become available without geoblocking on ABC iView or the Four Corners Facebook page. The accompanying ABC News article has further …

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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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