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Snurb — Tuesday 19 May 2020 10:30

Some Research Updates from Home

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | Crisis Communication | Twitter | QUT Digital Media Research Centre | ARC Future Fellowship | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) |

Like most of us, the current COVID-19 crisis has forced me to work from home for the foreseeable future, but my colleagues and I at the QUT Digital Media Research Centre have remained just as busy – in fact, of course, as a significant driver of journalistic coverage, of newssharing through social media (including both legitimate news and various forms of mis- and disinformation), and of general social media debate and discussion, the crisis intersects directly with some of our core research areas.

Many of us in this field now have urgent research projects in train that address some of …

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Snurb — Tuesday 19 May 2020 09:23

Homebrew CommResearch Club: Computational Approaches to Studying COVID-19 (CCA 2020)

Politics | Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Crisis Communication | Twitter | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | Conferences |

CCA Solidarity Symposium 2020

Homebrew CommResearch Club: Computational Approaches to Studying COVID-19

Jonathan Zhu, Axel Bruns, Wenhong Chen, Cuihua Cindy Shen, Celine Yunya Song, and Wayne Xu

  • 9 May 2020 – Chinese Communication Association Solidarity Symposium, online
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Snurb — Tuesday 19 May 2020 08:50

'Like a Virus' - Disinformation in the Age of COVID-19 (A@H 2020)

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Crisis Communication | Twitter | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) |

Australia at Home 2020

‘Like a Virus’ – Disinformation in the Age of COVID-19

Tim Graham and Axel Bruns

  • 23 Apr. 2020 – Australia at Home seminar series, online

The COVID-19 pandemic has also spawned an “infodemic” – where life-saving facts and genuine expertise are often overrun by half-truths, lies, and scams going viral online.

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Snurb — Saturday 12 October 2019 16:58

Australian Academics' Public Communication on 'Amplifier' Platforms (ANZCA 2019)

Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | TrISMA (ARC LIEF) | Twitter | Amplifying Public Value: Scholarly Contributions’ Impact on Public Debate (ARC Linkage) | ANZCA 2019 |

ANZCA 2019

Australian Academics’ Public Communication on ‘Amplifier’ Platforms

Kim Osman, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, and Stuart Cunningham

  • 5 July 2019 – Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference, Canberra
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Snurb — Saturday 12 October 2019 16:43

The Expert in the Debate: Mapping Scholarly Contributions to the 2018 Australia Day Debate across Social Media (SM&S 2019)

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | TrISMA (ARC LIEF) | Twitter | Amplifying Public Value: Scholarly Contributions’ Impact on Public Debate (ARC Linkage) | SM&S 2019 |

SM&S 2019

The Expert in the Debate: Mapping Scholarly Contributions to the 2018 Australia Day Debate across Social Media

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, and Kim Osman

  • 21 July 2019 – Social Media & Society conference, Toronto
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Snurb — Thursday 10 October 2019 15:32

Out-of-the-Box vs. In-House Tools: How Are They Affecting Data Journalism in Australia? (ANZCA 2019)

Journalism | Industrial Journalism | 'Big Data' | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | ANZCA 2019 |

ANZCA 2019

Out-of-the-Box vs. In-House Tools: How Are They Affecting Data Journalism in Australia?

Mathias Felipe de Lima-Santos, Aljosha Karim Schapals, and Axel Bruns

  • 5 July 2019 – Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference, Canberra
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Snurb — Thursday 10 October 2019 14:01

Are Journalism Metrics Trustworthy Enough to Be Used in Editorial Decision-Making? (AoIR 2019)

Journalism | Industrial Journalism | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | AoIR 2019 |

AoIR 2019

Are Journalism Metrics Trustworthy Enough to Be Used in Editorial Decision-Making?

Aljosha Karim Schapals and Axel Bruns

  • 3 Oct. 2019 – Association of Internet Researchers conference, Brisbane
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Snurb — Saturday 5 October 2019 14:57

Are News Outlets Deliberately Trolling Us into More Engagement on Facebook?

Politics | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | Facebook | AoIR 2019 |

The next speaker in this AoIR 2019 session is Eddy Hurcombe, whose focus is on the pursuit of social media interactions metrics by Australian news organisations that post deliberately controversial content – in essence, trolling for engagement. This taps into the social media logics that build on the platforms’ governing principles – and these social media logics now also increasingly govern the engagement with and dissemination of news stories.

This is not necessarily a purely Australian phenomenon – other news organisations also deliberately publish controversial content in order to pursue user engagement – we might need to rethink the focus …

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Snurb — Thursday 3 October 2019 09:26

Do Journalists Trust Journalistic Metrics?

Journalism | Industrial Journalism | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | AoIR 2019 |

It’s Thursday morning, and after the fabulous opening keynote by Bronwyn Carlson last night the AoIR 2019 conference at QUT in Brisbane is now getting started properly. This morning I’m in a panel on metrics in journalism, academia, and music that begins with a paper I’ve been involved in, and which my colleague Aljosha Karim Schapals will present. The slides are here:

Trust in Journalism Metrics from aljosha

Our key question here is whether journalism metrics are trustworthy enough to be used in editorial decision-making. This is part of a larger project on the future of journalism in a post-journalism …

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Snurb — Tuesday 16 July 2019 13:30

A Round-Up of Some Recent Publications

Politics | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | TrISMA (ARC LIEF) | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | Publications |

Well, it’s mid-year and I’m back from a series of conferences in Europe and elsewhere, so this seems like a good time to take stock and round up some recent publications that may have slipped through the net.

Gatewatching and News Curation

But let’s begin with a reminder that my book Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere was published by Peter Lang in 2018 and is now available from Amazon and other book stores. The book is the sequel (not a second edition) to Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (2005), and updates the story of …

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