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Snurb — Friday 22 May 2020 16:42

Sharing, Spamming, Sockpuppeting (ICA 2020)

Politics | ARC Future Fellowship | ICA 2020 | Industrial Journalism | Journalism | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | ‘Fake News’ | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) |
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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 15:05

Mining Influencers in the German Twittersphere: Mapping a Language-Based Follow Network (IC2S2 2019)

'Big Data' | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Social Media Network Mapping | TrISMA (ARC LIEF) | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | IC2S2 2019 |

IC2S2 2019

Mining Influencers in the German Twittersphere: Mapping a Language-Based Follow Network

Felix Victor Münch, Ben Thies, Cornelius Puschmann, and Axel Bruns

  • 18 July 2019 – International Conference on Computational Social Science, Amsterdam
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Snurb — Thursday 10 October 2019 14:31

Bots among Us: Prevalence, Influence, and Roles of Automated Accounts in the German Twitter Follow Network (AoIR 2019)

‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Social Media Network Mapping | TrISMA (ARC LIEF) | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | AoIR 2019 |

AoIR 2019

Bots among Us: Prevalence, Influence, and Roles of Automated Accounts in the German Twitter Follow Network

Felix Victor Münch, Cornelius Puschmann, Ben Thies, and Axel Bruns

  • 5 Oct. 2019 – Association of Internet Researchers conference, Brisbane
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Snurb — Saturday 5 October 2019 10:06

Understanding the Diverging Dynamics of Conspiracy Theories on Twitter

Politics | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | AoIR 2019 |

The final speaker in this AoIR 2019 session is QUT DMRC PhD graduate Dr. Jing Zeng, whose focus is on the automated dissemination of conspiracy theories on Twitter – including suggestions that celebrities like Justin Bieber, industry leaders like Mark Zuckerberg, and royals are actually shape-shifting lizards; that planes spread mind-controlling chemtrails; that the Earth is flat; or that the California wildfires were started by a new energy weapon created by the U.S. government.

Such conspiracy theorists are experts at providing apparently simple explanations for complex phenomena. They also clusters together to support each other’s explanations with self-reinforcing theories that …

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Snurb — Saturday 5 October 2019 09:22

Bots in the German Twittersphere

Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | AoIR 2019 |

The final day at AoIR 2019 begins for me with a panel on social media bots, and the first speakers are Felix Münch and Ben Thies who present a paper that I have also contributed to; the slides are below. Social bots have become quite prominent in media coverage of social media in recent times, with particular focus on platforms like Twitter, but it is difficult to assess just how prevalent they are on such platforms, partly also because it is difficult to get a sense of the make-up of larger social media populations.

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