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Snurb — Sunday 4 January 2026 10:01

Facts and Fabrication in Search Experience: Russia’s War on Ukraine and Google's Role in Gatekeeping Fact-Checked Information (JERAA 2025)

Politics | Polarisation | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Artificial Intelligence | Search Engines | ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | JERAA 2025 |

JERAA 2025

Facts and Fabrication in Search Experience: Russia’s War on Ukraine and Google's Role in Gatekeeping Fact-Checked Information

Kateryna Kasianenko, Ashwin Nagappa, Silvia Montaña-Niño, Michelle Riedlinger, Ned Watt, Anand Badola, Axel Bruns, and Daniel Angus

  • 2 Dec. 2025 – Paper presented at the JERAA 2025 conference, Brisbane

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Snurb — Thursday 1 January 2026 15:06

Wrapping Up The Last of My 2025 Conference Presentations

Politics | Elections | Polarisation | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Internet Technologies | Artificial Intelligence | Search Engines | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Facebook | Practice Mapping | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | QUT Digital Media Research Centre | ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society | ARC Future Fellowship | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | AANZCA 2025 | AoIR 2025 | IAMCR 2025 | SEASON 2025 | Music |

2025 is finally over, but other than as part of the liveblogs I haven't yet had a chance to round up our various presentations at conferences during the second half of the past year. We ended the year with the AANZCA conference on the Sunshine Coast, where I presented what was something of a labour of love: a look back on ten turbulent years of the #auspol hashtag on what used to be Twitter. 

Through the efforts of a series of excellent data scientists in our QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) team (especially Brenda Moon, Felix Münch, Jan Tan …

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Snurb — Thursday 1 January 2026 14:00

Extending Our Capabilities: Towards LLM-Assisted Frame Analysis of Australian Climate Movement News Coverage (AoIR 2025)

Politics | Polarisation | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Artificial Intelligence | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | AoIR 2025 |

AoIR 2025

Extending Our Capabilities: Towards LLM-Assisted Frame Analysis of Australian Climate Movement News Coverage

Laura Vodden, Katharina Esau, Axel Bruns, Tariq Choucair

  • 16 Oct. 2025 – Paper presented at the 2025 Association of Internet Researchers conference, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro

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Snurb — Thursday 1 January 2026 13:37

Division and Delay in Australian Climate and Energy Discussions: An LLM-Assisted Analysis of Discourse Coalitions across News Reports and Parliamentary Submissions (AoIR 2025)

Politics | Government | Polarisation | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Practice Mapping | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | AoIR 2025 |

AoIR 2025

Division and Delay in Australian Climate and Energy Discussions: An LLM-Assisted Analysis of Discourse Coalitions across News Reports and Parliamentary Submissions

Carly Lubicz-Zaorski, Katharina Esau, Laura Vodden, Tariq Choucair, Axel Bruns, Michelle Riedlinger, Ehsan Dehghan, and Samantha Vilkins

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    Snurb — Thursday 1 January 2026 12:53

    How Discursive Alliances Shift: A Longitudinal Analysis of Australian Climate Change Discourses on Facebook through Practice Mapping (IAMCR 2025)

    Politics | Polarisation | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | Facebook | Practice Mapping | Social Media Network Mapping | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | IAMCR 2025 |

    IAMCR 2025

    How Discursive Alliances Shift: A Longitudinal Analysis of Australian Climate Change Discourses on Facebook through Practice Mapping

    Axel Bruns, Carly Lubicz-Zaorski, Tariq Choucair, Laura Vodden, and Ehsan Dehghan

    • 14 July 2025 – Paper presented at the IAMCR 2025 conference, Singapore

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    Snurb — Friday 28 November 2025 12:06

    Analysing Digital Campaigning and Public Debate during the 2025 Australian Federal Election

    Politics | Elections | Polarisation | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | Facebook | Practice Mapping | Social Media Network Mapping | Streaming Media | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | AANZCA 2025 | Liveblog |

    The second panel at the AANZCA 2025 conference today is on digital campaigning in the 2025 Australian federal election, and starts with my QUT colleague Sam Vilkins presenting our attempts to track social media activities throughout the election. For this we focussed on the period from the issue of election writs to the day before the election itself.

    Tracking digital campaigning has become a great deal more difficult, in part due to the changes to the overall social media landscape with the enxittification of Twitter and the aging of Facebook, as well as the rise of various other alternative platforms …

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    Snurb — Friday 28 November 2025 10:09

    Investigating ‘Truthpapers’ as Dark Alternative Media

    Politics | Polarisation | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | AANZCA 2025 | Liveblog |

    The final speaker in this session at the AANZCA 2025 conference is Brigid O’Connell, whose focus is on the emergence of the newspaper The Light as a problematic alternative news source. It can be described as dark political communication: political content that seeks to deepen political polarisation and discontent.

    The Light’s coverage centres on COVID-19 denialism and conspiracist perspectives; it publishes in print and online, and originated in the UK and Ireland before adding an Australian edition soon after, funded by a coalition of COVID-19 sceptics and others. The publication describes itself as a ‘truthpaper’, and in this aligns …

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    Snurb — Friday 28 November 2025 10:05

    Similarities and Overlaps between Leading English-Language Far-Right News Channels on YouTube

    Politics | Polarisation | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Streaming Media | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | AANZCA 2025 | Liveblog |

    The second paper in this session at the AANZCA 2025 conference is by my QUT colleague Klaus Gröbner, whose focus is on transnational similarities between far-right news outlets. The far right has increasingly connected at a transnational level in recent years even in spite of its largely nationalist orientation; CPAC and the network of ‘patriot’ parties in Europe are both vehicles for this, and this has also led to a coalescence in their talking points over time – positioning themselves against ‘the establishment’, aligning themselves with white supremacist ideas, opposing gender policies and LGBTIQ+ rights, and pushing climate change disinformation …

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    Snurb — Friday 28 November 2025 10:04

    How the ICE Deportations of the Second Trump Administration Are Covered Internationally

    Politics | Government | Polarisation | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | AANZCA 2025 | Liveblog |

    And the final day at the AANZCA 2025 conference starts with a session on transnational news that begins with Niusha Hansel and Linda Jean Kenix. Their study examines news coverage of the Trump administration’s deployment of ICE to deport migrants. Some 600,000 undocumented immigrants have (supposedly) been deported during the first year of Trump’s second term, and a total of 2 million have left the US; this has also caused widespread protests, including the No Kings protests across the country.

    How has this been reported internationally, across English-speaking countries UK, Canada, Australia, Philippines, Nigeria, and India? Common to these are …

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    Snurb — Thursday 27 November 2025 16:41

    The Presence (and Failure) of ‘Anti-Woke’ Rhetoric in the 2025 Australian Federal Election

    Politics | Elections | Polarisation | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | AANZCA 2025 | Liveblog |

    The final speaker in this panel at the AANZCA 2025 conference is David Nolan, whose focus is specifically on constructions of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the 2025 Australian federal election, in the wake of the Trump administration’s cancelling of DEI programmes in the US. Such interventions were seen as having the potential for a ‘Trump effect’ during the Australian election, too – with attempts by conservative politicians and others to create an ‘anti-woke’ groundswell.

    Attacks on DEI programmes tend to misrepresent what such programmes aim to achieve: procedural and distributive justice in organisations and institutions. DEI is …

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