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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

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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 — 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

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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 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

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

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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

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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

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