Presentations and Talks

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Journalism, Gatewatching, and Newssharing

Felix Münch, Axel Bruns, and Laura Vodden. “Polarisation in Newssharing: Reviewing the Evidence from Facebook and Twitter.” Paper presented at the AoIR 2024 conference, Sheffield, 2 Nov. 2024.

Axel Bruns, Arjun Srinivas, Abdul Karim Obeid, James Meese, Daniel Angus, Timothy Graham, and Jean Burgess. “Polarisation via Search? Assessing the Political Spectrum of Google News Recommendations.” Paper presented at the AoIR 2024 conference, Sheffield, 2 Nov. 2024.

Katharina Esau, Axel Bruns, Laura Vodden, Michelle Riedlinger, Samantha Vilkins, Laura Lefevre, and Carly Lubicz-Zaorski. “Challenges in Acquiring and Analysing News Data at Scale: A Case Study of News Polarisation in Australian Climate Change Coverage.” Paper presented at the AoIR 2024 conference, Sheffield, 2 Nov. 2024.

Axel Bruns, Tariq Choucair, Sebastian Svegaard, Laura Vodden, and Daniel Whelan-Shamy. “Representation? Treaty? Polarisation in News and Social Media Debates about Indigenous Rights in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.” Paper presented at the AoIR 2024 conference, Sheffield, 31 Oct. 2024.

Axel Bruns, Dan Angus, Laura Vodden, Ashwin Nagappa, and Klaus Gröbner. “Facebook without the News: Link-Sharing Patterns during Meta’s Australian and Canadian News Bans.” Paper presented at the ECREA 2024 conference, Ljubljana, 27 Sep. 2024.

Axel Bruns. “The Filter in Our (?) Heads: Digital Media and Polarisation.” New Research Culture lecture at the Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities, Helsinki, 18 Sep. 2024.

Axel Bruns. “Reflections on Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code and Canada’s C-18 Bill.” Invited presentation at the US Computer & Communications Industry Association event “The Impact of Link Taxes on News and Beyond: Lessons from Australia and Canada”, online, 10 Sep. 2024.

Axel Bruns, Tariq Choucair, Sebastian Svegaard, Samantha Vilkins, Katharina Esau, and Laura Vodden. “‘If you don’t know, vote no’: Symptoms of Destructive Polarisation in the 2023 Voice to Parliament Referendum in Australia.” Paper presented at the IAMCR 2024 conference, Christchurch, 1 July 2024.

Daniel Angus, Stephen Harrington, Axel Bruns, Phoebe Matich, Nadia Jude, Edward Hurcombe, and Ashwin Nagappa. “'What Else Are They Talking About?': A Large-Scale Longitudinal Analysis of Misinformation Super-Spreader Communities on Facebook.” Paper presented at the ICA 2024 conference, Gold Coast, 22 June 2024.

Katharina Esau, Hendrik Meyer, Mike Farjam, Helena Rauxloh, Axel Bruns, and Michael Brüggemann. “Polarised Media Framing of Climate Protests: A Comparative Mixed-Methods Analysis of Australia and Germany.” Paper presented at the ICA 2024 conference, Gold Coast, 21 June 2024.

Axel Bruns. “Dynamics of Destructive Polarisation in Mainstream and Social Media: The Case of the Australian Voice to Parliament Referendum.” Keynote presented at the Indicators of Social Cohesion in Social Media and Online Media symposium, Hamburg, 25 Apr. 2024.

Axel Bruns. “Identifying the Symptoms of Destructive Polarisation.” Keynote presented at the I-POLHYS 2024 symposium, Bologna, 22-23 Feb. 2024.

Katharina Esau, Axel Bruns, Tariq Choucair, Samantha Vilkins, and Laura Vodden. “Voices on the Voice Referendum: A Computational Analysis of News and Audience Polarisation within the Australian Media Landscape.” Paper presented at the ANZCA 2023 conference, Wellington, 22-24 Nov. 2023.

Axel Bruns. “What Is Lost When Twitter Is Lost? Reflections on the Impending Death of a Platform.” Keynote presented at the COMNEWS 2023 conference, Bali, 25 Oct. 2023, and the ANZCA 2023 conference, Wellington, 23 Nov. 2023.

Axel Bruns, Tariq Choucair, Sebastian Svegaard, and Samantha Vilkins. “Types of Polarisation and Their Operationalisation in Digital and Social Media Research.” Paper presented at the AoIR 2023 conference, Philadelphia, 18 Oct. 2023.

Axel Bruns, Felix Münch, Ehsan Dehghan, and Laura Vodden. “News Sharing and Partisanship: Tracking News Outlet Repertoires on Twitter over Time.” Paper presented at the Future of Journalism 2023 conference, Cardiff, 15 Sep. 2023.

Axel Bruns, Katharina Esau, Tariq Choucair, Sebastian Svegaard, and Samantha Vilkins. “Determining the Drivers and Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate.” Paper presented at the ECREA PolCom 2023 conference, Berlin, 1 Sep. 2023.

Axel Bruns, Tariq Choucair, Katharina Esau, Sebastian Svegaard, and Samantha Vilkins. “Towards a New Empiricism: Polarisation across Four Dimensions.” Paper presented at the IAMCR 2023 conference, Lyon, 11 July 2023.

Axel Bruns and John Dryzek, moderated by Selen Ercan. “Future-Proofing the Public Sphere.” Podium discussion to conclude the Future-Proofing the Public Sphere series, Brisbane / Canberra, 2 May 2023.

Axel Bruns. “The Filter in Our (?) Heads: Digital Media and Polarisation.” First presentation in the Future-Proofing the Public Sphere series, Brisbane / Canberra, 2 May 2023.

Axel Bruns, with Edward Hurcombe and Stephen Harrington. “The Anatomy of Virality: How COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Spread across Social and Mainstream Media.” Keynote at the Empowering the Truth Summit, online, 23 Feb. 2023.

Axel Bruns, with Edward Hurcombe and Stephen Harrington. “From the Fringes to the Mainstream: How COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Spread across Social and Mainstream Media.” Invited remote presentation at the Higher Education Cloud Forum 2022, St Louis, 11 Nov. 2022.

Axel Bruns. “Journalists Behaving Badly: Mainstream Media as Amplifiers of Misinformation.” Keynote presented at the ECREA 2022 post-conference ‘Digital Media and Information Disorders’, Aarhus, 24 Oct. 2022, and at the Symposium Studying News and Platforms, Weizenbaum-Institut, Berlin, 22 Nov. 2022.

Aljosha Karim Schapals and Axel Bruns. “Responding to ‘Fake News’: Journalistic Perceptions of and Reactions to a Delegitimising Force.” Paper presented at the ECREA 2022 post-conference ‘Digital Media and Information Disorders’, Aarhus, 24 Oct. 2022.

Axel Bruns, Ehsan Dehghan, Felix Münch, and Laura Vodden. “News-Sharing Practices over Time: Is There an Impact from Growing Polarisation?” Paper presented at the ECREA 2022 conference, Aarhus, 21 Oct. 2022.

Axel Bruns, Daniel Angus, Xue Ying (Jane) Tan, Edward Hurcombe, Nadia Jude, Phoebe Matich, Stephen Harrington, Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, and Scott Wright. “'Fake News' on Facebook: A Large-Scale, Longitudinal Study of Problematic Information Dissemination between 2016 and 2021” Paper presented at the ECREA 2022 conference, Aarhus, 21 Oct. 2022.

Axel Bruns, with live translation by Sílvia Montaña Niño. “News Media and Audiences in the Digital Sphere: Gatewatching and News Curation.” Invited presentation at the virtual conference Periodismo Ciudadano en la Esfera Digital, Colombia, 22 June 2022.

Axel Bruns, Abdul Karim Obeid, Daniel Angus, and James Meese. “Assessing the Personalisation of Australian Google News Results.” Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, Paris, 30 May 2022.

Axel Bruns. “Facebook's Australian News Ban and Its Implications for Critical Platform Studies.” Invited presentation at the Griffith Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Brisbane, 26 Nov. 2021.

Daniel Angus, Axel Bruns, Edward Hurcombe, Stephen Harrington, Sofya Glazunova, Sílvia Ximena Montaña-Niño, Abdul Obeid, Souleymane Coulibaly, Simon Copland, Timothy Graham, Scott Wright, and Ehsan Dehghan. “‘Fake News’ and Other Problematic Information: Studying Dissemination and Discourse Patterns.” Panel presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, online, 12-16 Oct. 2021.

Dan Angus, Axel Bruns, Edward Hurcombe, and Stephen Harrington. “'Fake News' on Facebook: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study of Problematic Link-Sharing Practices from 2016-2020.” Long version of a paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, online, 12-16 Oct. 2021.

Simon Copland, Tim Graham, and Axel Bruns. “From Cable Niche to Social Media Success: International Engagement with Sky News Australia’s Brand of ‘News’.” Long version of a paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, online, 12-16 Oct. 2021.

Francesco Bailo, James Meese, Edward Hurcombe, Tama Leaver, Axel Bruns, Dan Angus, and Belinda Barnet. “Australia’s Big Gamble: The News Media Bargaining Code and the Responses from Google and Facebook.” Panel presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, online, 12-16 Oct. 2021.

Axel Bruns and Dan Angus. “Facebook’s Australian News Ban: Threat, Impact, and Aftermath.” Long version of a paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, online, 12-16 Oct. 2021.

Michelle Riedlinger, Alice Fleerackers, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Lars Guenther, Marina Joubert, and Kim Osman. “The Conversation, Ten Years On: Assessing the Impact of a Unique Scholarly Publishing Initiative.” Panel presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, online, 12-16 Oct. 2021.

Axel Bruns, Michelle Riedlinger, and Jean Burgess. “The Conversation on Facebook: Patterns of Dissemination in Australia and Anglophone Canada.” Long version of a paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, online, 12-16 Oct. 2021.

Axel Bruns. “Societies on the Brink: Understanding the Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation.” QUTeX talk presented at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 30 Sep. 2021.

Axel Bruns, with Edward Hurcombe and Stephen Harrington. “From the Fringes to the Mainstream: How COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Spread across Social and Mainstream Media.” Invited presentation at Syracuse University, USA, and OsloMet University, Norway, 23/28 Sep. 2021.

Axel Bruns, Edward Hurcombe, Stephen Harrington, and Nadia Jude. “From the Fringes to the Mainstream: How COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Spread across Social and Mainstream Media.” Paper presented at the Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference, online, 9 July 2021.

Axel Bruns, Michelle Riedlinger, and Jean Burgess. “The Conversation, Ten Years On: Patterns of Engagement with The Conversation Australia and Canada.” Paper presented at the Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference, online, 8 July 2021.

Michelle Riedlinger, Axel Bruns, and Jean Burgess. “Sharing Uncertain Science: Mapping the Circulation of COVID-19 Preprint Research Reported in The Conversation on Facebook.” Paper presented at the Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference, online, 8 July 2021.

Edward Hurcombe, Axel Bruns, Daniel Angus, Stephen Harrington, and Jane Tan. “‘Fake News’ on Facebook: A Longitudinal Analysis of Link Sharing between 2016 and 2021.” Paper presented at the Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference, online, 8 July 2021.

Magdalena Wischnewski, Axel Bruns, and Tobias Keller. “Shareworthiness and Motivated Reasoning in Hyper-Partisan News Sharing Behavior on Twitter.” Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, online, 27-31 May 2021.

Edward Hurcombe, Axel Bruns, and Stephen Harrington. “Covering Conspiracy: Mainstream and Fringe Reporting of the COVID/5G Conspiracy Theory.” Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, online, 27-31 May 2021.

Axel Bruns and Tobias R. Keller. “News Diffusion on Twitter: Comparing the Dissemination Careers for Mainstream and Marginal News .” Paper presented at the Social Media & Society 2020 conference, online, 22 July 2020.

Gianluca Demartini, Axel Bruns, and Caroline Wilson-Barnao. “We Need to Talk about... COVID-19, the Media and Fake News.” Panel discussion in the UQ Art Museum's We Need to Talk about... series, 24 June 2020.

Axel Bruns, Tim Graham, Brenda Moon, Tobias R. Keller, and Dan Angus. “Sharing, Spamming, Sockpuppeting: Comparing the Twitter Dissemination Careers of News Articles from Mainstream and Suspect News Outlets.” Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, online, 20 May 2020.

Tim Graham and Axel Bruns. “'Like a Virus' – Disinformation in the Age of COVID-19.” Seminar presented in the Australia Institute's Australia at Home series, 23 Apr. 2020.

Aljosha Karim Schapals and Axel Bruns. “Are Journalism Metrics Trustworthy Enough to Be Used in Editorial Decision-Making?” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Brisbane, 3 Oct. 2019.

Kim Osman, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, and Stuart Cunningham. “Australian Academics’ Public Communication on ‘Amplifier’ Platforms.” Paper presented at the Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference, Canberra, 5 July 2019.

Mathias Felipe de Lima-Santos, Aljosha Karim Schapals and Axel Bruns. “Out-of-the-Box vs. In-House Tools: How Are They Affecting Data Journalism in Australia?” Paper presented at the Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference, Canberra, 5 July 2019.

Axel Bruns. “Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism and Social Media.” Invited presentation at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies, Bochum, 17 Apr. 2019.

Christian Nuernbergk and Axel Bruns. “A Cross-National Comparison of Twitter User Interactions with Leading Political Journalists.” Presented at ECREA 2018, Lugano, 3 Nov. 2018.

Axel Bruns. “Gatewatching Revisited: Habitualisation, Demoticisation, Normalisation.” Presented at ECREA 2018, Lugano, 1 Nov. 2018.

Axel Bruns. “Impact and Engagement through The Conversation and Other Amplifier Platforms.” Presented at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Mathematical & Statistical Frontiers Impact Workshop, Brisbane, 4 Oct. 2018.

Axel Bruns. “Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere.” Invited presentation in the Media@Sydney series, University of Sydney, 24 Aug. 2018.

Axel Bruns, Christian Nuernbergk, and Aljosha Karim Schapals. "What Journalists Share: A Comparative Study of the National Press Corps in Australia and Germany." Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society, Copenhagen, 20 July 2018.

Axel Bruns. “Gatewatching and News Curation: Industry Responses to Habitual Newssharing by Audiences.” Keynote at the Haifa-LINKS Symposium on Content Producers, Haifa, 18 Feb. 2018.

Axel Bruns and Folker Hanusch. “Journalism-as-a-Service: Amplifying Public Intellectual Contributions through The Conversation.” Paper presented at ECREA 2016, Prague, 12 Nov. 2016.

Folker Hanusch and Axel Bruns. “Journalistic Branding on Twitter: An Exploratory Study of Australian Journalists.” Paper presented at the 2016 International Communication Association, Fukuoka, 9-13 June 2016.

Axel Bruns. “Wissenschaftsjournalismus als Dienstleistung: Die Verstärkerplattform The Conversation.” Invited plenary presentation at the workshop Wissenschaft, Öffentlichkeit und Medien, Berlin, 18 Mar. 2016.

Axel Bruns. “Amplifying Impact: Developing Indicators of Public Value in Public Communication.” Breakfast talk presented at the conference of the Cooperative Research Centres Association, Brisbane, 8 Mar. 2016.

Axel Bruns. “Gatewatching Revisited: News Curation in the Social Media Age.” Paper presented in the QUT Digital Media Research Centre Seminar Series, Brisbane, 2 Oct. 2015.

Axel Bruns, Stephen Harrington, and Tim Highfield. “Political Networks on Twitter: Tweeting the Queensland State Election.” Paper presented at the European Communication Conference (ECREA), Istanbul, 26 Oct. 2012.

Tim Highfield, Axel Bruns, and Stephen Harrington. “#auspol, #qldpol, and #wapol: Twitter and the New Australian Political Commentariat.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Salford, 21 Oct. 2012.

Axel Bruns, Tim Highfield, and Stephen Harrington. "Sharing the News: Dissemination of Links to Australian News Sites on Twitter." Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Salford, 20 Oct 2012.

Axel Bruns. "Gatekeeping, Gatewatching, Real-Time Feedback: New Challenges for Journalism." Guest lecture presented at the University of Helsinki, 11 Oct. 2012.

Axel Bruns. “Gatekeeping, Gatewatching, Real-Time Feedback: New Challenges for Journalism.” Keynote presented at the SBPJor conference, Rio de Janeiro, 4 Nov. 2011.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “New Methodologies for Researching News Discussion on Twitter.” Paper presented at the Future of Journalism conference, Cardiff, 8 Sep. 2011.

Axel Bruns. “Gatekeeping, Gatewatching, Echtzeitfeedback: Neue Herausforderungen für den Journalismus.” Guest lecture presented at the University of Vienna, 9 May 2011.

Axel Bruns. “The Blogification of Australian Journalism? Notes from the Election.” Plenary paper presented at the Journalism Education Association conference, Sydney, 26 Nov. 2010.

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Tim Highfield, Lars Kirchhoff, and Thomas Nicolai. "Mapping the Australian Networked Public Sphere." Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, Singapore, 25 June 2010.

Axel Bruns, Tim Highfield, Lars Kirchhoff, and Thomas Nicolai. "Critical Voices in the Australian Political Blogosphere." Paper presented at AoIR 2009, Milwaukee, 7-10 Oct. 2009.

Axel Bruns. "Citizen Journalism and Everyday Life: A Case Study of Germany's myHeimat.de." Paper presented at Future of Journalism, Cardiff, 9-10 Sep. 2009.

Lars Kirchhoff, Thomas Nicolai, Axel Bruns, and Tim Highfield. "Monitoring the Australian Blogosphere through the 2007 Australian Federal Election." Paper presented at ANZCA 2009, Brisbane, 8 July 2009.

Axel Bruns, Lars Kirchhoff, and Thomas Nicolai. "Mapping the Australian Political Blogosphere." Poster presented at WebSci '09, Athens, 19 Mar. 2009. (PDF file, ~5MB)

Axel Bruns. "Blogs und Bürgerjournalismus: öffentliches Nachrichtenforum oder Startpunkt für neue politische Bewegungen?" Keynote at the conference "Das Internet zwischen egalitärer Teilhabe und ökonomischer Vermachtung", Zentrum für Medien und Interaktivität, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 24 Oct. 2008.

Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, and Barry Saunders. "Building Spaces for Hyperlocal Citizen Journalism." Paper presented at the AoIR 2008 conference, Copenhagen, 18 Oct. 2008.

Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, Barry Saunders, Lars Kirchhoff, and Thomas Nicolai. "Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election." Paper presented at the AoIR 2008 conference, Copenhagen, 18 Oct. 2008.

Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, Barry Saunders, Tim Highfield, Lars Kirchhoff, and Thomas Nicolai. "Locating the Australian Blogosphere: Towards a New Research Methodology." Paper presented at the ISEA 2008 conference, Singapore, 25 July - 3 August 2008.

Axel Bruns. "Beyond the Pro/Am Schism: Opportunities for Collaboration between Professional and Citizen Journalists under a Produsage Framework." Paper presented at the CCi 2008 conference, Brisbane, 25-27 June 2008.

Axel Bruns. "Citizen Journalism in the 2007 Australian Federal Election." Paper presented at the AMIC 2008 conference: "Convergence, Citizen Journalism, and Social Change", Brisbane, 26-28 Mar. 2008.

Lars Kirchhoff, Axel Bruns, and Thomas Nicolai. "Investigating the Impact of the Blogosphere: Using PageRank to Determine the Distribution of Attention." Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Vancouver, 18 Oct. 2007.

Axel Bruns. "Wikinews: The Next Generation of Online News?" Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Chicago, 8 October 2005.

Social Media

Felix Münch, Axel Bruns, and Laura Vodden. “Polarisation in Newssharing: Reviewing the Evidence from Facebook and Twitter.” Paper presented at the AoIR 2024 conference, Sheffield, 2 Nov. 2024.

Axel Bruns, Tariq Choucair, Sebastian Svegaard, Laura Vodden, and Daniel Whelan-Shamy. “Representation? Treaty? Polarisation in News and Social Media Debates about Indigenous Rights in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.” Paper presented at the AoIR 2024 conference, Sheffield, 31 Oct. 2024.

Axel Bruns, Dan Angus, Laura Vodden, Ashwin Nagappa, and Klaus Gröbner. “Facebook without the News: Link-Sharing Patterns during Meta’s Australian and Canadian News Bans.” Paper presented at the ECREA 2024 conference, Ljubljana, 27 Sep. 2024.

Axel Bruns. “The Filter in Our (?) Heads: Digital Media and Polarisation.” New Research Culture lecture at the Helsinki Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities, Helsinki, 18 Sep. 2024.

Axel Bruns. “Reflections on Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code and Canada’s C-18 Bill.” Invited presentation at the US Computer & Communications Industry Association event “The Impact of Link Taxes on News and Beyond: Lessons from Australia and Canada”, online, 10 Sep. 2024.

Axel Bruns and Anand Badola. “The Twitter That Was: Reflections on Ten Years of #auspol.” Paper presented at the Social Media & Society 2024 conference, London, 18 July 2024.

Axel Bruns, Laura Vodden, Tariq Choucair, Sebastian Svegaard, and Kate O’Connor Farfan. “Political Debates in Third Spaces? Football Fan Communities and the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.” Paper presented at the IAMCR 2024 conference, Christchurch, 3 July 2024.

Axel Bruns, Tariq Choucair, Sebastian Svegaard, Samantha Vilkins, Katharina Esau, and Laura Vodden. “‘If you don’t know, vote no’: Symptoms of Destructive Polarisation in the 2023 Voice to Parliament Referendum in Australia.” Paper presented at the IAMCR 2024 conference, Christchurch, 1 July 2024.

Katharina Esau, Samantha Vilkins, Axel Bruns, Sebastian Svegaard, Tariq Choucair, Carly Lubicz, and Kate O’Connor. “Breaking Points – Five Symptoms of Constructive Agonism Turning into Destructive Polarised Discourse.” Paper presented at the P³: Power, Propaganda, Polarisation ICA 2024 postconference, Brisbane, 26 June 2024.

Daniel Angus, Stephen Harrington, Axel Bruns, Phoebe Matich, Nadia Jude, Edward Hurcombe, and Ashwin Nagappa. “'What Else Are They Talking About?': A Large-Scale Longitudinal Analysis of Misinformation Super-Spreader Communities on Facebook.” Paper presented at the ICA 2024 conference, Gold Coast, 22 June 2024.

Axel Bruns. “Dynamics of Destructive Polarisation in Mainstream and Social Media: The Case of the Australian Voice to Parliament Referendum.” Keynote presented at the Indicators of Social Cohesion in Social Media and Online Media symposium, Hamburg, 25 Apr. 2024.

Axel Bruns. “Identifying the Symptoms of Destructive Polarisation.” Keynote presented at the I-POLHYS 2024 symposium, Bologna, 22-23 Feb. 2024.

Katharina Esau, Axel Bruns, Tariq Choucair, Samantha Vilkins, and Laura Vodden. “Voices on the Voice Referendum: A Computational Analysis of News and Audience Polarisation within the Australian Media Landscape.” Paper presented at the ANZCA 2023 conference, Wellington, 22-24 Nov. 2023.

Axel Bruns. “What Is Lost When Twitter Is Lost? Reflections on the Impending Death of a Platform.” Keynote presented at the COMNEWS 2023 conference, Bali, 25 Oct. 2023, and the ANZCA 2023 conference, Wellington, 23 Nov. 2023.

Axel Bruns, Tariq Choucair, Sebastian Svegaard, and Samantha Vilkins. “Types of Polarisation and Their Operationalisation in Digital and Social Media Research.” Paper presented at the AoIR 2023 conference, Philadelphia, 18 Oct. 2023.

Axel Bruns, Felix Münch, Ehsan Dehghan, and Laura Vodden. “News Sharing and Partisanship: Tracking News Outlet Repertoires on Twitter over Time.” Paper presented at the Future of Journalism 2023 conference, Cardiff, 15 Sep. 2023.

Axel Bruns, Katharina Esau, Tariq Choucair, Sebastian Svegaard, and Samantha Vilkins. “Determining the Drivers and Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate.” Paper presented at the ECREA PolCom 2023 conference, Berlin, 1 Sep. 2023.

Axel Bruns, Tariq Choucair, Katharina Esau, Sebastian Svegaard, and Samantha Vilkins. “Towards a New Empiricism: Polarisation across Four Dimensions.” Paper presented at the IAMCR 2023 conference, Lyon, 11 July 2023.

Katharina Esau, Tariq Choucair, Samantha Vilkins, Sebastian Svegaard, Axel Bruns, Kate O'Connor, and Carly Lubicz. “Destructive Political Polarisation in the Context of Digital Communication – A Critical Literature Review and Conceptual Framework.” Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, Toronto, 30 May 2023.

Sofya Glazunova, Anna Ryzhova, Axel Bruns, Silvia Ximena Montaña-Niño, Arista Beseler, and Ehsan Dehghan. “A Platform Policy Implementation Audit of Actions against Russia’s State-Controlled Media.” Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, Toronto, 30 May 2023.

Axel Bruns, Michelle Riedlinger, Carly Lubicz-Zaorski, Ehsan Dehghan, and Daniel Angus. “Networks of Agonism and Antagonism: Polarised Discourses about COP26 (and COP27) on Twitter.” Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, Toronto, 27 May 2023.

Sebastian Svegaard, Tariq Choucair, Kate O'Connor Farfan, and Axel Bruns. “Affective Polarisation in Political Leaders' Discourses: A Comparison between Australia, Brazil, Denmark, and Perú.” Paper presented at the International Communication Association preconference Comparative Digital Political Communication: Comparisons across Countries, Platforms, and Time, Toronto, 25 May 2023.

Axel Bruns and John Dryzek, moderated by Selen Ercan. “Future-Proofing the Public Sphere.” Podium discussion to conclude the Future-Proofing the Public Sphere series, Brisbane / Canberra, 2 May 2023.

Axel Bruns. “The Filter in Our (?) Heads: Digital Media and Polarisation.” First presentation in the Future-Proofing the Public Sphere series, Brisbane / Canberra, 2 May 2023.

Axel Bruns, with Edward Hurcombe and Stephen Harrington. “The Anatomy of Virality: How COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Spread across Social and Mainstream Media.” Keynote at the Empowering the Truth Summit, online, 23 Feb. 2023.

Axel Bruns, with Edward Hurcombe and Stephen Harrington. “From the Fringes to the Mainstream: How COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Spread across Social and Mainstream Media.” Invited remote presentation at the Higher Education Cloud Forum 2022, St Louis, 11 Nov. 2022.

Axel Bruns, Daniel Angus, Timothy Graham, Ehsan Dehghan, Nadia Jude, and Phoebe Matich. “Electioneering in Pandemic Times: The 2022 Australian Federal Election on Facebook and Twitter.” Paper presented at the AoIR 2022 conference, Dublin, 3 Nov. 2022.

Daniel Angus, Mark Andrejevic, Bronwyn Carlson, Axel Bruns, Abdul Obeid, Philip Mai, and Anatoliy Gruzd. “Platform-Based Political Advertising: New Approaches for Enhancing Platform Observability.” Paper presented at the AoIR 2022 conference, Dublin, 3 Nov. 2022.

Axel Bruns. “Journalists Behaving Badly: Mainstream Media as Amplifiers of Misinformation.” Keynote presented at the ECREA 2022 post-conference ‘Digital Media and Information Disorders’, Aarhus, 24 Oct. 2022, and at the Symposium Studying News and Platforms, Weizenbaum-Institut, Berlin, 22 Nov. 2022.

Edward Hurcombe, Daniel Angus, Axel Bruns, Ehsan Dehghan, and Laura Vodden. “‘Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior’: How Meta Shapes the Discussion of Mis/Disinformation on Facebook.” Paper presented at the ECREA 2022 post-conference ‘Digital Media and Information Disorders’, Aarhus, 24 Oct. 2022.

Axel Bruns, Ehsan Dehghan, Felix Münch, and Laura Vodden. “News-Sharing Practices over Time: Is There an Impact from Growing Polarisation?” Paper presented at the ECREA 2022 conference, Aarhus, 21 Oct. 2022.

Axel Bruns, Daniel Angus, Xue Ying (Jane) Tan, Edward Hurcombe, Nadia Jude, Phoebe Matich, Stephen Harrington, Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, and Scott Wright. “'Fake News' on Facebook: A Large-Scale, Longitudinal Study of Problematic Information Dissemination between 2016 and 2021” Paper presented at the ECREA 2022 conference, Aarhus, 21 Oct. 2022.

Axel Bruns, Ehsan Dehghan, Daniel Angus, Nadia Jude, and Phoebe Matich. “Independents’ Day? Political Campaigning on Social Media in the 2022 Australian Federal Election.” Paper presented at the ECREA 2022 pre-conference "Digital Election Campaigning Worldwide", Aarhus, 19 Oct. 2022.

Axel Bruns. “The Filter in Our (?) Heads: Digital Media and Polarisation.” Keynote at the Norwegian Media Researcher Conference, Stavanger, 13 Oct. 2022.

Axel Bruns, Daniel Angus, Timothy Graham, and Ehsan Dehghan. “The COVID Election: Political Campaigning on Social Media in the 2022 Australian Federal Election.” Paper presented at the Digital Campaigning in Dissonant Public Spheres symposium, Villa La Collina, Cadenabbia, Italy, 9 May 2022.

Axel Bruns. “Online Communities and Where to Find Them: Conceptual and Analytical Frameworks.” Invited presentation to the Social Media Data Science Group at the University of Sydney, 30 Nov. 2021.

Axel Bruns. “Facebook's Australian News Ban and Its Implications for Critical Platform Studies.” Invited presentation at the Griffith Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Brisbane, 26 Nov. 2021.

Daniel Angus, Axel Bruns, Edward Hurcombe, Stephen Harrington, Sofya Glazunova, Sílvia Ximena Montaña-Niño, Abdul Obeid, Souleymane Coulibaly, Simon Copland, Timothy Graham, Scott Wright, and Ehsan Dehghan. “‘Fake News’ and Other Problematic Information: Studying Dissemination and Discourse Patterns.” Panel presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, online, 12-16 Oct. 2021.

Dan Angus, Axel Bruns, Edward Hurcombe, and Stephen Harrington. “'Fake News' on Facebook: A Large-Scale Longitudinal Study of Problematic Link-Sharing Practices from 2016-2020.” Long version of a paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, online, 12-16 Oct. 2021.

Simon Copland, Tim Graham, and Axel Bruns. “From Cable Niche to Social Media Success: International Engagement with Sky News Australia’s Brand of ‘News’.” Long version of a paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, online, 12-16 Oct. 2021.

Francesco Bailo, James Meese, Edward Hurcombe, Tama Leaver, Axel Bruns, Dan Angus, and Belinda Barnet. “Australia’s Big Gamble: The News Media Bargaining Code and the Responses from Google and Facebook.” Panel presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, online, 12-16 Oct. 2021.

Axel Bruns and Dan Angus. “Facebook’s Australian News Ban: Threat, Impact, and Aftermath.” Long version of a paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, online, 12-16 Oct. 2021.

Michelle Riedlinger, Alice Fleerackers, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Lars Guenther, Marina Joubert, and Kim Osman. “The Conversation, Ten Years On: Assessing the Impact of a Unique Scholarly Publishing Initiative.” Panel presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, online, 12-16 Oct. 2021.

Axel Bruns, Michelle Riedlinger, and Jean Burgess. “The Conversation on Facebook: Patterns of Dissemination in Australia and Anglophone Canada.” Long version of a paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, online, 12-16 Oct. 2021.

Axel Bruns. “ Societies on the Brink: Understanding the Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation.” QUTeX talk presented at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 30 Sep. 2021.

Axel Bruns, with Edward Hurcombe and Stephen Harrington. “From the Fringes to the Mainstream: How COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Spread across Social and Mainstream Media.” Invited presentation at Syracuse University, USA, and OsloMet University, Norway, 23/28 Sep. 2021.

Tim Graham, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, Axel Bruns, and Dan Angus; Fabio Giglietto, Nicola Righetti, Luca Rossi, and Giada Marino; Dan Angus, Tim Graham, Tobias Keller, Brenda Moon, and Axel Bruns; and Franziska B. Keller, Sebastian Stier, David Schoch, and JungHwan Yang. “Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour in Social Media: New Methods and Findings.” Panel presented at the European Communication Conference (ECREA) conference, online, 7 Sep. 2021.

Axel Bruns. “Beyond the Bubble: A Critical Review of the Evidence for Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles.” Paper presented at the European Communication Conference (ECREA) conference, online, 7 Sep. 2021.

Axel Bruns, Edward Hurcombe, Stephen Harrington, and Nadia Jude. “From the Fringes to the Mainstream: How COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Spread across Social and Mainstream Media.” Paper presented at the Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference, online, 9 July 2021.

Axel Bruns, Michelle Riedlinger, and Jean Burgess. “The Conversation, Ten Years On: Patterns of Engagement with The Conversation Australia and Canada.” Paper presented at the Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference, online, 8 July 2021.

Michelle Riedlinger, Axel Bruns, and Jean Burgess. “Sharing Uncertain Science: Mapping the Circulation of COVID-19 Preprint Research Reported in The Conversation on Facebook.” Paper presented at the Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference, online, 8 July 2021.

Edward Hurcombe, Axel Bruns, Daniel Angus, Stephen Harrington, and Jane Tan. “‘Fake News’ on Facebook: A Longitudinal Analysis of Link Sharing between 2016 and 2021.” Paper presented at the Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference, online, 8 July 2021.

Magdalena Wischnewski, Axel Bruns, and Tobias Keller. “Shareworthiness and Motivated Reasoning in Hyper-Partisan News Sharing Behavior on Twitter.” Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, online, 27-31 May 2021.

Edward Hurcombe, Axel Bruns, and Stephen Harrington. “Covering Conspiracy: Mainstream and Fringe Reporting of the COVID/5G Conspiracy Theory.” Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, online, 27-31 May 2021.

Axel Bruns. “Are Filter Bubbles Real?” Invited presentation to Media Futures Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology and Innovation, Bergen, Norway, 16 Apr. 2021.

Axel Bruns. “Social Media and the News: Approaches to the Spread of (Mis)information.” Paper presented as part of the workshop Integrity 2021: Integrity in Social Networks and Media at the 14th ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), Jerusalem, Israel, 12 Mar. 2021.

Axel Bruns (with Edward Hurcombe and Stephen Harrington). “Soziale Medien, Massenmedien, offizielle Stellungnahmen: Umgang mit Desinformationen am Beispiel der COVID/5G-Verschwörungstheorien” Invited keynote at the PolKomm 2021 conference, Weizenbaum-Institut für die vernetzte Gesellschaft, Berlin, 12 Feb. 2021.

Ehsan Dehghan, Brenda Moon, Tobias Keller, Tim Graham, Axel Bruns, and Dan Angus. “Investigating Bots and Coordinated Influence Campaigns in Twitter Discussions of the 2019-20 Iran Protests.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers 2020 conference, online, 27-31 Oct. 2020.

Tobias R. Keller, Tim Graham, Dan Angus, and Axel Bruns. “#ArsonEmergency: Climate Change Disinformation during the Australian Bushfire Season 2019-2020.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers 2020 conference, online, 27-31 Oct. 2020.

Axel Bruns and Tobias R. Keller. “News Diffusion on Twitter: Comparing the Dissemination Careers for Mainstream and Marginal News .” Paper presented at the Social Media & Society 2020 conference, online, 22 July 2020.

Axel Bruns, Tim Graham, Brenda Moon, Tobias R. Keller, and Dan Angus. “Sharing, Spamming, Sockpuppeting: Comparing the Twitter Dissemination Careers of News Articles from Mainstream and Suspect News Outlets.” Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, online, 20 May 2020.

Jonathan Zhu, Axel Bruns, Wenhong Chen, Cuihua Cindy Shen, Celine Yunya Song, and Wayne Xu. “Homebrew CommResearch Club: Computational Approaches to Studying COVID-19.” Chinese Communication Association Solidarity Symposium #2, 9 May 2020.

Tim Graham and Axel Bruns. “'Like a Virus' – Disinformation in the Age of COVID-19.” Seminar presented in the Australia Institute's Australia at Home series, 23 Apr. 2020.

Axel Bruns, Tim Graham, and Dan Angus. “Trust Us, Again? Twitter Campaigning Strategies in the 2019 Australian Federal Election.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Brisbane, 5 Oct. 2019.

Felix Victor Münch, Cornelius Puschmann, Ben Thies, and Axel Bruns. “Bots among Us: Prevalence, Influence, and Roles of Automated Accounts in the German Twitter Follow Network.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Brisbane, 5 Oct. 2019.

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, and Kim Osman. “The Expert in the Debate: Mapping Scholarly Contributions to the 2018 Australia Day Debate across Social Media.” Paper presented at the Social Media & Society conference, Toronto, 21 July 2019.

Felix Victor Münch, Ben Thies, Cornelius Puschmann, and Axel Bruns. “Mining Influencers in the German Twittersphere: Mapping a Language-Based Follow Network.” Paper presented at the International Conference on Computational Social Science, Amsterdam, 18 July 2019.

Axel Bruns. “It’s Not the Technology, Stupid: How the ‘Echo Chamber’ and ‘Filter Bubble’ Metaphors Have Failed Us.” Paper presented at the International Association for Media and Communication Research conference, Madrid, 10 July 2019. Full paper also available.

Kim Osman, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, and Stuart Cunningham. “Australian Academics’ Public Communication on ‘Amplifier’ Platforms.” Paper presented at the Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference, Canberra, 5 July 2019.

Felix Victor Münch, Ben Thies, Cornelius Puschmann, and Axel Bruns. “Walking through Twitter: Sampling a Language-Based Follow Network.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers Flashpoint Symposium, Urbino, 24 June 2019.

Axel Bruns. “Are Filter Bubbles Real?” Invited presentation at the Digital Humanities Research Group, Western Sydney University, Sydney, 22 May 2019.

Axel Bruns. “Are Filter Bubbles Real?” Invited presentation at the Center for Advanced Internet Studies, Duisburg, 17 Apr. 2019.

Christian Nuernbergk and Axel Bruns. “A Cross-National Comparison of Twitter User Interactions with Leading Political Journalists.” Presented at ECREA 2018, Lugano, 3 Nov. 2018.

Axel Bruns. “Pushed towards Dysfunction: How Social Media API Restrictions Distort Research Outcomes.” Keynote presented at Locked out of Social Platforms: An iCS Symposium on Challenges to Studying Disinformation, IT University, Copenhagen, 27 Oct. 2018.

Axel Bruns. “A Multi-Institutional Approach to ‘Big Social Data’: The TrISMA Project.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference 2018, Montréal, 12 Oct. 2018.

Axel Bruns. “Filter Bubbles in the Australian Twittersphere?” Paper presented at the Misinformation and Media Symposium 2018, University of Canberra, 10 Sep. 2018.

Axel Bruns. “Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere.” Invited presentation in the Media@Sydney series, University of Sydney, 24 Aug. 2018.

Björn Ross, Florian Brachten, Stefan Stieglitz, Patrik Wikström, Brenda Moon, Felix Münch, and Axel Bruns. "Social Bots in a Commercial Context – A Case Study on SoundCloud." Paper presented at the Twenty-Sixth European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS2018), Portsmouth, 23-28 June 2018.

Axel Bruns, Christian Nuernbergk, and Aljosha Karim Schapals. "What Journalists Share: A Comparative Study of the National Press Corps in Australia and Germany." Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society, Copenhagen, 20 July 2018.

Axel Bruns, Brenda Moon, Felix Victor Münch, Patrik Wikström, Stefan Stieglitz, Florian Brachten, and Björn Ross. "Detecting Twitter Bots That Share SoundCloud Tracks." Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Social Media and Society, Copenhagen, 19 July 2018.

Axel Bruns. “Following, Mentioning, Sharing: A Search for Filter Bubbles in the Australian Twittersphere.” Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, Prague, 26 May 2018.

Axel Bruns. “Echo Chamber? What Echo Chamber? Reviewing the Evidence.” Paper presented at the Future of Journalism conference, Cardiff, 15 Sep. 2017.

Axel Bruns, Brenda Moon, and Ehsan Dehghan. “Dynamics of a Scandal: The Centrelink Robodebt Affair on Twitter.” Paper presented at the Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference, Sydney, 7 July 2017.

Stephen Harrington, Axel Bruns, and Tim Highfield. “Infotainment and the Impact of ‘Connective Action’: The Case of #MilkedDry.” Paper presented at the Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference, Sydney, 6 July 2017.

Axel Bruns. “Social Media in Australia: A ‘Big Data’ Perspective on Twitter.” Invited guest lecture at the University of Melbourne, 4 Apr. 2017.

Julia Schwanholz, Brenda Moon, Axel Bruns & Felix Münch. “Politics of Tweeting, Tweeting of Politics: The Uses of Social Media by State Parliamentarians in Germany and Australia.” Paper presented at ECREA 2016, Prague, 12 Nov. 2016.

Axel Bruns and Brenda Moon. “Social Media in Australian Federal Elections: Comparing the 2013 and 2016 Campaigns.” Paper presented at ECREA 2016, Prague, 10 Nov. 2016.

Peta Mitchell, Felix Münch, and Axel Bruns. “The (Net)work of Mourning: Emotional Contagion, Viral Performativity, and the Death of David Bowie.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Berlin, 8 Oct. 2016.

Axel Bruns, Brenda Moon, Felix Münch, Jan-Hinrik Schmidt, Lisa Merten, Hallvard Moe, and Sander Schwartz. “News Sharing on Twitter: A Nationally Comparative Study.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Berlin, 6 Oct. 2016.

Axel Bruns. “Analysing the Norwegian Twittersphere.” Plenary presentation at the Forskningsdagene, Norwegian National Gallery, Oslo, 28 Sep. 2016.

Axel Bruns. “How the Person in the Street Became a Journalist: Social Media and the Second Wave of Citizen Journalism.” Invited presentation at Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology, Oslo, 27 Sep. 2016.

Axel Bruns, Patrik Wikström, Peta Mitchell, Brenda Moon, Felix Münch, Lucia Falzon, and Lucy Resnyansky. “Information Contagion through Social Media: Towards a Realistic Model of the Australian Twittersphere.” Paper presented at the ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference, Sydney, 19-22 July 2016.

Axel Bruns and Brenda Moon. “One Day in the Life of a National Twittersphere.” Paper presented at Social Media & Society 2016, London, 13 July 2016.

Folker Hanusch and Axel Bruns. “Journalistic Branding on Twitter: An Exploratory Study of Australian Journalists.” Paper presented at the 2016 International Communication Association, Fukuoka, 9-13 June 2016.

Axel Bruns and Katrin Weller. “Twitter as a First Draft of the Present — and the Challenges of Preserving It for the Future.” Paper presented at Web Science 2016, Hannover, 23-25 May 2016. (Full paper.)

Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns. “Easy Data, Hard Data: The Politics and Pragmatics of Twitter Research after the Computational Turn.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Phoenix, 23 Oct. 2015.

Axel Bruns and Tim Highfield. “Social Media in Selected Australian Federal and State Election Campaigns, 2010-15.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Phoenix, 23 Oct. 2015.

Axel Bruns. “Gatewatching Revisited: News Curation in the Social Media Age.” Paper presented in the QUT Digital Media Research Centre Seminar Series, Brisbane, 2 Oct. 2015.

Axel Bruns. “Social Media in Australia: The Case of Twitter.” Invited lecture presented at the Defence Science and Technology Group, Adelaide, 24 Sep. 2015.

Axel Bruns. “Political Uses of Social Media.” Lunchtime seminar presented to Members at the Queensland Parliament, Brisbane, 15 Sep. 2015.

Eli Skogerbø, Axel Bruns, Andrew Quodling, and Thomas Ingebretsen. “Agenda-Setting Revisited: Social Media and Sourcing in Mainstream Journalism.” Paper presented by Eli Skogerbø at the ECREA Political Communication conference, Odense, 27 Aug. 2015.

Axel Bruns. “From Geographic Location to Network Location: The Potential of Big Social Data.” Invited paper presented at the Pivotal 2015 International Executive Summit, Brisbane, 30 June 2015.

Axel Bruns. “Twitter in Germany: A Big Data Perspective.” Guest lecture presented at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 3 June 2015.

Tim Highfield and Axel Bruns. “Social Media News Audiences and the Quantified Journalist.” Paper presented by Tim Highfield at the International Communication Association conference, Puerto Rico, 22 May 2015.

Axel Bruns and Tim Highfield. “‘Big Social Data’ in Context: Connecting Social Media Data and Other Sources.” Paper presented at the ACSPRI Social Science Methodology Conference, Sydney, 7-10 Dec. 2014.

Axel Bruns, Darryl Woodford, Troy Sadkowsky, and Tim Highfield. “Mapping a National Twittersphere: A ‘Big Data’ Analysis of Australian Twitter User Networks.” Paper presented at the European Communication Conference (ECREA), Lisbon, 13 Nov. 2014.

Axel Bruns, Darryl Woodford, and Troy Sadkowsky. “Exploring the Global Demographics of Twitter.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Daegu, 22-25 Oct. 2014.

Darryl Woodford, Katie Prowd, Axel Bruns, Ben Goldsmith, Stephen Harrington, and Jean Burgess. “Introducing Telemetrics: The Weighted Tweet Index.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Daegu, 22-25 Oct. 2014.

Axel Bruns, Darryl Woodford, Tim Highfield, and Katie Prowd. “Mapping Social TV Audiences: The Footprints of Leading Shows in the Australian Twittersphere.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Daegu, 22-25 Oct. 2014.

Axel Bruns and Theresa Sauter. “The Emergence of Trending Topics: The Dissemination of Breaking Stories on Twitter.” Paper presented at the Social Media and the Transformation of Public Space conference, Amsterdam, 18 June 2014.

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, and Darryl Woodford. “Mapping Online Publics: New Methods for Twitter Research.” Paper presented at the Twitter Workshop: Analysing Network Data, Göttingen, 12 June 2014.

Axel Bruns. “Social Media Issue Publics in Australia.” Paper presented at the IBM Research Colloquium 2013, Melbourne, 12 Nov. 2013.

Axel Bruns and Theresa Sauter. “Anatomie eines Trending Topics: Retweet-Ketten als Verbreitungsmechanismus für aktuelle Ereignisse.” Paper presented at the DGPuk Innovative Methods for the Study of Public Communication workshop, Vienna, 8 Nov. 2013.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “Easy Data, Hard Data? Twitter Research and the Politics of Data Access.” Paper presented at the Compromised Data symposium, Toronto, 28 Oct. 2013.

Axel Bruns, Tim Highfield, and Theresa Sauter. “#ausvotes Mark Two: Twitter in the 2013 Australian Federal Election.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Denver, 24 Oct. 2013.

Katrin Weller and Axel Bruns. “Friends or Followers: German Soccer Clubs and Their Fans on Twitter.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Denver, 25 Oct. 2013.

Theresa Sauter and Axel Bruns. “#Pontiff-Ex: The Twitter Community’s Reaction to the Papal Resignation.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Denver, 25 Oct. 2013.

Theresa Sauter and Axel Bruns. “Exploring Emotions on #auspol: Polarity and Public Performance in the Twitter Debate on Australian Politics.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Denver, 26 Oct. 2013.

Axel Bruns. “Twitter and the 2013 Australian Election.” Paper presented at Political Imperatives: Media and the 2013 Election Campaign, Brisbane, 27 Sep. 2013.

Tim Highfield and Axel Bruns. “#wavotes: Tracking Candidates' Use of Social Media in the 2013 Western Australian State Election.” Paper presented at ANZCA 2013, 5 July 2013.

Axel Bruns. “Social Media in Australia: The Case of Twitter.” Paper presented at the Social Media Masterclass at the Australian Teachers of Media 2013 conference, Brisbane, 4 July 2013.

Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns. “Mapping the Australian Twittersphere.” Paper presented at the Media in Transition 8 conference, Boston, 3-5 May 2013.

Axel Bruns. “Neue Öffentlichkeiten auf Social-Media-Plattformen: Zur Nutzung von ‚Big Data‘ in der Kommunikationsforschung.” Visiting Fellow lecture presented at the Centre for Advanced Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, 23 Apr. 2013.

Axel Bruns and Tim Highfield. “Die Twitterstrategien der Wahlkampagnen im US-Wahlkampf 2012.” Paper presented at “Re:publica 2013”, Berlin, 6 May 2013.

Axel Bruns. “Researching Social Media in Times of Crisis.” Keynote presented at the Eidos Institute “Social Media in Times of Crisis 2013” symposium, Brisbane, 4 Apr. 2013.

Axel Bruns. “Making Sense of Twitter: New Research Methods in the Digital Humanities.” Paper presented at the UQ Digital Humanities Symposium, Brisbane, 2 Nov. 2012.

Tim Highfield, Axel Bruns, and Stephen Harrington. “Tweeting le Tour: Connecting the Tour de France’s Global Audience through Twitter.” Paper presented at the European Communication Conference (ECREA), Istanbul, 26 Oct. 2012.

Axel Bruns, Stephen Harrington, and Tim Highfield. “Political Networks on Twitter: Tweeting the Queensland State Election.” Paper presented at the European Communication Conference (ECREA), Istanbul, 26 Oct. 2012.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “Analysing Twitter Activity in Crisis Contexts.” Paper presented at the European Communication Conference (ECREA), Istanbul, 26 Oct. 2012.

Axel Bruns. “Social Media, Big Data, and the Public Sphere.” Paper presented at the European Communication Conference (ECREA), Istanbul, 25 Oct. 2012.

Tim Highfield, Axel Bruns, and Stephen Harrington. “#auspol, #qldpol, and #wapol: Twitter and the New Australian Political Commentariat.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Salford, 21 Oct. 2012.

Axel Bruns, Tim Highfield, and Stephen Harrington. "#Eurovision: Twitter as a Technology of Fandom." Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Salford, 20 Oct 2012.

Axel Bruns, Tim Highfield, and Stephen Harrington. "Sharing the News: Dissemination of Links to Australian News Sites on Twitter." Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Salford, 20 Oct 2012.

Axel Bruns. “Twitter, Big Data, and the Search for Meaning: Methodology in Progress.” Paper presented at the Centre for Communication and Computing Symposium “Digital Data – Lost, Found, and Made”, Copenhagen, 16 Oct. 2012.

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, and Tim Highfield. "Inter and Intra-Language Engagement on Twitter in Arab Spring Hashtag Communities." Paper presented at The Arab Spring: A Symposium on Social Media and the Politics of Reportage, Melbourne, 8 June 2012.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. "Notes towards the Scientific Study of Public Communication on Twitter." Keynote presented at the Conference on Science and the Internet, Düsseldorf, 4 Aug. 2012.

Axel Bruns. "Towards a Comprehensive Picture of the Australian Twittersphere." Plenary paper presented at the workshop Methodeninnovationen in der Internetforschung, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, 12 July 2012.

Axel Bruns. "Mapping Online Publics: Understanding the Role of Twitter in Public Communication." Invited plenary paper presented at the first NCRM Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology workshop, University of the West of England, Bristol, 9 July 2012.

Axel Bruns. "Social Media as Part of the Wider Mediasphere." Keynote presented at Australian Teachers of Media (Queensland) conference, Brisbane, 27 May 2012.

Cornelius Puschmann, Jean Burgess, Axel Bruns, and Merja Mahrt. "Data Access, Ownership and Control in Social Web Services: Issues for Twitter Research." Paper presented at International Communication Conference conference, Phoenix, 26 May 2012.

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Lars Kirchhoff, and Thomas Nicolai. "Mapping the Australian Twittersphere." Paper presented at Digital Humanities Australasia, Canberra, 30 Mar. 2012.

Axel Bruns. "Archiving the Immediate: How and Why Archives Should Approach Social Media." Paper presented at Archiving the Iconic, Australian Society of Archivists Symposium, Sydney, 20 Oct. 2011.

Axel Bruns. "Ad Hoc Innovation by Users of Social Networks: The Case of Twitter." Paper presented at the Challenge Social Innovation 2011 conference, Vienna, 19 Sep. 2011.

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, and Stephen Harrington. "Mapping Online Publics on Twitter." Keynote presented at the Düsseldorf Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twitter Analysis, Düsseldorf, 14 Sep. 2011.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “New Methodologies for Researching News Discussion on Twitter.” Paper presented at the Future of Journalism conference, Cardiff, 8 Sep. 2011.

Axel Bruns. “Mapping Online Publics: Researching the Uses of Twitter.” Guest lecture presented at the University of Amsterdam, 1 Sep. 2011.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “The Use of Twitter Hashtags in the Formation of Ad Hoc Publics.” Paper presented at the European Consortium for Political Research conference, Reykjavík, 26 Aug. 2011.

Axel Bruns. “Tracking Crises on Twitter: Analysing #qldfloods and #eqnz.” Plenary paper presented at the Emergency Management Conference, Melbourne, 13 July 2011.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “Mapping Online Publics.” Workshop presented at the Communities & Technologies conference, Brisbane, 29 June 2011.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “Twitter, Public Communication and the Media Ecology: The Case of the Queensland Floods.” Paper presented at The World According to Twitter workshop, Brisbane, 28 June 2011.

Axel Bruns. “Mapping Online Publics: Understanding How Australians Use Social Media.” Paper presented at the National Public Sector Digital Media Officers’ Forum 2011, Melbourne, 21 June 2011.

Axel Bruns. “Tracking Crises on Twitter: Analysing #qldfloods and #eqnz.” Plenary paper presented at the Emergency Media and Public Affairs Conference, Canberra, 12 Apr. 2011.

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Kate Crawford, and Frances Shaw. “Social Media Use in the Queensland Floods.” Plenary paper presented at the Eidos Institute “Social Media in Times of Crisis” symposium, Brisbane, 4 Apr. 2011.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “Election 2010: The View from Twitter.” Paper presented at the International Australian Studies Association ‘Double Vision’ conference, Sydney, 26 Nov. 2010.

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Thomas Nicolai, and Lars Kirchhoff. “Mapping Australian User-Created Content: Methodological, Technological and Ethical Challenges.” Paper presented at AoIR 2010, Gothenburg, 22 Oct. 2010.

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Thomas Nicolai, and Lars Kirchhoff. “Key Events in Australian (Micro-)Blogging during 2010.” Paper presented at the 3rd European Communications Conference, Hamburg, 15 Oct. 2010.

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Lars Kirchhoff, and Thomas Nicolai. “Tracing Publics in the Australian Blogosphere: New Methods for International Communication Research.” Paper presented at Doing Global Media Studies, a pre-conference to ECREA 2010, Bremen, 12 Oct. 2010.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. "In Search of Australian Blogs: Determining the Extent of the Contemporary Australian Blogosphere." Paper presented at ANZCA 2010, Canberra, 8 July 2010.

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Tim Highfield, Lars Kirchhoff, and Thomas Nicolai. "Mapping the Australian Networked Public Sphere." Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, Singapore, 25 June 2010.

Axel Bruns. "Tracking Social Media Participation: New Approaches to Studying User-Generated Content." Invited seminar at the Journalism & Media Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 Oct. 2009.

Axel Bruns. "New Perspectives on Social Media: Putting Our 'Known Unknowns' on the Map." Presented at the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme, Brisbane, 16 July 2009.

Axel Bruns. "Data Visualisation." Presented at CCi Symposium 2009, Brisbane, 30 Mar. 2009.

Thomas Nicolai, Lars Kirchhoff, Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, and Barry Saunders. "Google Yourself! Measuring the Performance of Personalised Information Resources." Paper presented at the AoIR 2008 conference, Copenhagen, 18 Oct. 2008.

Produsers and Produsage

Axel Bruns. "Produsage Revisited." Invited paper presented at the Uses across Media 2013, Copenhagen, 31 Oct. 2013.

Axel Bruns. "Ad Hoc Innovation by Users of Social Networks: The Case of Twitter." Paper presented at the Challenge Social Innovation 2011 conference, Vienna, 19 Sep. 2011.

Axel Bruns. "Using Social Media for Effective Communication." Paper presented at the Cooperative Research Centres Association conference, Brisbane, 17 May 2011.

Axel Bruns. "Exploring the Pro-Am Interface between Production and Produsage." Paper presented at The Internet Turning 40 conference, Hong Kong, 19 June 2010.

Axel Bruns. "Outreach and Co-Curation: Engaging with Library Users." Invited presentation at the State Library of Western Australia, Perth, 28 April 2010, and the State Library of South Australia, Adelaide, 30 April 2010.

Axel Bruns. "Social Media: Understanding Online Communities." Presented at the Smart Services CRC Participants Meeting, Sydney, 21 April 2010.

Axel Bruns. "Produsage and Beyond: Exploring the Pro-Am Interface." Invited seminar at the Journalism & Media Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 Oct. 2009.

Axel Bruns. "From Prosumer to Produser: Understanding User-Led Content Creation." Paper presented at Transforming Audiences, London, 3-4 Sep. 2009.

Axel Bruns. "User-Generated Content als Qualitätsmedium? Alternative Anreize für Qualitätscontent." Paper presented at Alcatel-Lucent Foundation conference "Finanzierung von Qualitätscontent", Hamburg, 9 June 2009.

Axel Bruns. "The User-Led Disruption: Self-(Re)broadcasting at Justin.tv and Elsewhere." Paper presented at EuroITV, Leuven, Belgium, 4 June 2009.

Axel Bruns. "Produsage and Business: Sharing Your Brand with Users." Paper presented at next09, Hamburg, 6 May 2009.

Axel Bruns. "Vom Prosumer zum Produser: Ein neues Verständnis nutzergesteuerter Inhaltserschaffung." Presented at Prosumer Revisited: Eine Tagung zur Aktualität der Debatte, Frankfurt, 26 Mar. 2009.

Axel Bruns. "'Anyone Can Edit': From Users to Produsers." Guest lecture presented at the Sino-German School of Governance, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management , Frankfurt, 25 Mar. 2009.

Axel Bruns. "Disruption 2.0: Broadcast vs. Social Media." Paper presented at the Australasian Media & Broadcasting Congress, Sydney, 26 Nov. 2008.

Axel Bruns. "'Anyone Can Edit': Vom Nutzer zum Produtzer." Guest lecture at the Hans-Bredow-Institut, Universität Hamburg, 20 Oct. 2008 / Universität Münster, 28 May 2009.

Sal Humphreys and Axel Bruns. "Collaborative Local Content Creation through edgeX: An Evaluation." Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Copenhagen, 17 Oct. 2008.

Axel Bruns. "All the World's a Library: Produsage and User-Led Curation." Keynote presented at the Arts Libraries Society Australia and New Zealand conference, Brisbane, 9 Oct. 2008.

Axel Bruns and Sal Humphreys. "Playing on the Edge: Facilitating the Emergence of a Local Digital Grassroots." Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Vancouver, 20 Oct. 2007.

Axel Bruns. "The Future Is User-Led: The Path towards Widespread Produsage." Paper presented at the PerthDAC 2007 conference, Perth, 16 October 2007.

Axel Bruns. "Produsage: Towards a Broader Framework for User-Led Content Creation." Paper presented at the Creativity & Cognition Conference, Washington, DC, 14 June 2007

Axel Bruns. "Teaching the Produsers: Preparing Students for User-Led Content Production." Featured speech presented at the Australian Teachers of Media Conference, Brisbane, 8 October 2006.

Axel Bruns. "'Anyone Can Edit': Understanding the Produser." The Mojtaba Saminejad Lecture, for the Institute for Distributed Creativity. Guest Lecture presented at SUNY, Buffalo, 28 September 2005; New School, New York City, 11 October 2005; Brown University, Providence, 13 October 2005; Temple University, Philadelphia, 14 October 2005; Creative Industries Faculty, QUT, Brisbane, 4 August 2006. Updated version presented at the University of Lincoln, UK, 21 February 2007, and the University of Leeds, UK, 28 February 2007.

Axel Bruns. "Contemporary Culture and the Web." Paper presented at the Archiving Web Resources conference, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 9-12 Nov. 2004.

Crisis Communication

Tim Graham and Axel Bruns. “'Like a Virus' – Disinformation in the Age of COVID-19.” Seminar presented in the Australia Institute's Australia at Home series, 23 Apr. 2020.

Axel Bruns. “Social Media Issue Publics in Australia.” Paper presented at the IBM Research Colloquium 2013, Melbourne, 12 Nov. 2013.

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, and Avijit Paul. “Cumulative and Comparative Social Media Analytics for Crisis Communication.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Denver, 25 Oct. 2013.

Axel Bruns. “Social Media in Times of Crisis: The Australian Perspective.” Paper presented at a Project EPIC symposium, Boulder, 23 Oct. 2013.

Axel Bruns. “From #qldfloods to #sandy: Engaging with the Public during Crisis Events.” Paper presented at Social Media Communication Strategies in Government 2013, Brisbane, 17 Sep. 2013.

Axel Bruns. “Researching Social Media in Times of Crisis.” Keynote presented at the Eidos Institute “Social Media in Times of Crisis 2013” symposium, Brisbane, 4 Apr. 2013.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “Analysing Twitter Activity in Crisis Contexts.” Paper presented at the European Communication Conference (ECREA), Istanbul, 26 Oct. 2012.

Axel Bruns. "Social Media and Crisis Communication." Guest lecture presented at the University of Helsinki, 12 Oct. 2012.

Frances Shaw, Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns. “Patterns of Talk on Twitter during the Queensland Floods.” Paper presented at the Talk about Disasters workshop, Griffith University, Brisbane, 25 June 2012.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “Twitter and the Queensland Floods.” Paper presented at the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association conference, Brisbane, 23 Apr. 2012.

Axel Bruns. “Twitter and Disasters.” / “Twitter in the 2011 Queensland Floods (and Beyond).” Papers presented in a post-conference workshop at the Disaster Resilient Communities 2012 conference, Melbourne, 19 Apr. 2012.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “Local and Global Responses to Disaster: #eqnz and the Christchurch Earthquake.” Paper presented at the Australia New Zealand Disaster & Emergency Management Conference, Brisbane, 18 Apr. 2012.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “Local and Global Responses to Disaster: #eqnz and the Christchurch Earthquake.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Seattle, 12 Oct. 2011.

Axel Bruns. “Social Media Use in the Queensland Floods and Christchurch Earthquake.” Plenary paper presented at the Institute of Public Administration Australia (WA) RightClick event, Perth, 30 Sep. 2011.

Axel Bruns. “Tracking Crises on Twitter: Analysing #qldfloods and #eqnz.” Plenary paper presented at the Emergency Management Conference, Melbourne, 13 July 2011.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “Twitter, Public Communication and the Media Ecology: The Case of the Queensland Floods.” Paper presented at The World According to Twitter workshop, Brisbane, 28 June 2011.

Axel Bruns. “Mapping Online Publics: Understanding How Australians Use Social Media.” Paper presented at the National Public Sector Digital Media Officers’ Forum 2011, Melbourne, 21 June 2011.

Axel Bruns. “Tracking Crises on Twitter: Analysing #qldfloods and #eqnz.” Plenary paper presented at the Emergency Media and Public Affairs Conference, Canberra, 12 Apr. 2011.

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Kate Crawford, and Frances Shaw. “Social Media Use in the Queensland Floods.” Plenary paper presented at the Eidos Institute “Social Media in Times of Crisis” symposium, Brisbane, 4 Apr. 2011.

Government and Democracy

Axel Bruns, Tariq Choucair, Sebastian Svegaard, Laura Vodden, and Daniel Whelan-Shamy. “Representation? Treaty? Polarisation in News and Social Media Debates about Indigenous Rights in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.” Paper presented at the AoIR 2024 conference, Sheffield, 31 Oct. 2024.

Axel Bruns, Dan Angus, Laura Vodden, Ashwin Nagappa, and Klaus Gröbner. “Facebook without the News: Link-Sharing Patterns during Meta’s Australian and Canadian News Bans.” Paper presented at the ECREA 2024 conference, Ljubljana, 27 Sep. 2024.

Axel Bruns. “Reflections on Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code and Canada’s C-18 Bill.” Invited presentation at the US Computer & Communications Industry Association event “The Impact of Link Taxes on News and Beyond: Lessons from Australia and Canada”, online, 10 Sep. 2024.

Axel Bruns and Anand Badola. “The Twitter That Was: Reflections on Ten Years of #auspol.” Paper presented at the Social Media & Society 2024 conference, London, 18 July 2024.

Axel Bruns, Tariq Choucair, Sebastian Svegaard, Samantha Vilkins, Katharina Esau, and Laura Vodden. “‘If you don’t know, vote no’: Symptoms of Destructive Polarisation in the 2023 Voice to Parliament Referendum in Australia.” Paper presented at the IAMCR 2024 conference, Christchurch, 1 July 2024.

Katharina Esau, Samantha Vilkins, Axel Bruns, Sebastian Svegaard, Tariq Choucair, Carly Lubicz, and Kate O’Connor. “Breaking Points – Five Symptoms of Constructive Agonism Turning into Destructive Polarised Discourse.” Paper presented at the P³: Power, Propaganda, Polarisation ICA 2024 postconference, Brisbane, 26 June 2024.

Axel Bruns. “Dynamics of Destructive Polarisation in Mainstream and Social Media: The Case of the Australian Voice to Parliament Referendum.” Keynote presented at the Indicators of Social Cohesion in Social Media and Online Media symposium, Hamburg, 25 Apr. 2024.

Axel Bruns. “Identifying the Symptoms of Destructive Polarisation.” Keynote presented at the I-POLHYS 2024 symposium, Bologna, 22-23 Feb. 2024.

Katharina Esau, Axel Bruns, Tariq Choucair, Samantha Vilkins, and Laura Vodden. “Voices on the Voice Referendum: A Computational Analysis of News and Audience Polarisation within the Australian Media Landscape.” Paper presented at the ANZCA 2023 conference, Wellington, 22-24 Nov. 2023.

Axel Bruns, Tariq Choucair, Sebastian Svegaard, and Samantha Vilkins. “Types of Polarisation and Their Operationalisation in Digital and Social Media Research.” Paper presented at the AoIR 2023 conference, Philadelphia, 18 Oct. 2023.

Axel Bruns, Katharina Esau, Tariq Choucair, Sebastian Svegaard, and Samantha Vilkins. “Determining the Drivers and Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate.” Paper presented at the ECREA PolCom 2023 conference, Berlin, 1 Sep. 2023.

Axel Bruns, Tariq Choucair, Katharina Esau, Sebastian Svegaard, and Samantha Vilkins. “Towards a New Empiricism: Polarisation across Four Dimensions.” Paper presented at the IAMCR 2023 conference, Lyon, 11 July 2023.

Sofya Glazunova, Anna Ryzhova, Axel Bruns, Silvia Ximena Montaña-Niño, Arista Beseler, and Ehsan Dehghan. “A Platform Policy Implementation Audit of Actions against Russia’s State-Controlled Media.” Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, Toronto, 30 May 2023.

Axel Bruns, Daniel Angus, Timothy Graham, Ehsan Dehghan, Nadia Jude, and Phoebe Matich. “Electioneering in Pandemic Times: The 2022 Australian Federal Election on Facebook and Twitter.” Paper presented at the AoIR 2022 conference, Dublin, 3 Nov. 2022.

Daniel Angus, Mark Andrejevic, Bronwyn Carlson, Axel Bruns, Abdul Obeid, Philip Mai, and Anatoliy Gruzd. “Platform-Based Political Advertising: New Approaches for Enhancing Platform Observability.” Paper presented at the AoIR 2022 conference, Dublin, 3 Nov. 2022.

Axel Bruns, Ehsan Dehghan, Daniel Angus, Nadia Jude, and Phoebe Matich. “Independents’ Day? Political Campaigning on Social Media in the 2022 Australian Federal Election.” Paper presented at the ECREA 2022 pre-conference "Digital Election Campaigning Worldwide", Aarhus, 19 Oct. 2022.

Axel Bruns, Daniel Angus, Timothy Graham, and Ehsan Dehghan. “The COVID Election: Political Campaigning on Social Media in the 2022 Australian Federal Election.” Paper presented at the Digital Campaigning in Dissonant Public Spheres symposium, Villa La Collina, Cadenabbia, Italy, 9 May 2022.

Axel Bruns. “Facebook's Australian News Ban and Its Implications for Critical Platform Studies.” Invited presentation at the Griffith Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Brisbane, 26 Nov. 2021.

Francesco Bailo, James Meese, Edward Hurcombe, Tama Leaver, Axel Bruns, Dan Angus, and Belinda Barnet. “Australia’s Big Gamble: The News Media Bargaining Code and the Responses from Google and Facebook.” Panel presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, online, 12-16 Oct. 2021.

Axel Bruns and Dan Angus. “Facebook’s Australian News Ban: Threat, Impact, and Aftermath.” Long version of a paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) conference, online, 12-16 Oct. 2021.

Axel Bruns, Tim Graham, and Dan Angus. “Trust Us, Again? Twitter Campaigning Strategies in the 2019 Australian Federal Election.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Brisbane, 5 Oct. 2019.

Axel Bruns. “ Societies on the Brink: Understanding the Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation.” QUTeX talk presented at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 30 Sep. 2021.

Axel Bruns, Brenda Moon, and Ehsan Dehghan. “Dynamics of a Scandal: The Centrelink Robodebt Affair on Twitter.” Paper presented at the Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference, Sydney, 7 July 2017.

Julia Schwanholz, Brenda Moon, Axel Bruns & Felix Münch. “Politics of Tweeting, Tweeting of Politics: The Uses of Social Media by State Parliamentarians in Germany and Australia.” Paper presented at ECREA 2016, Prague, 12 Nov. 2016.

Axel Bruns and Brenda Moon. “Social Media in Australian Federal Elections: Comparing the 2013 and 2016 Campaigns.” Paper presented at ECREA 2016, Prague, 10 Nov. 2016.

Axel Bruns. “Twitter in the 2013 Australian Election.” Paper presented at the Australia New Zealand Workshop on Campaign Management and Political Marketing, Sydney, 17-18 July 2014.

Axel Bruns. “All Politics Is Local? The Twitter Performance of Local Candidates in the 2013 Australian Federal Election.” Paper presented at the Social Media and the Transformation of Public Space conference, Amsterdam, 18 June 2014.

Axel Bruns, Tim Highfield, and Theresa Sauter. “#ausvotes Mark Two: Twitter in the 2013 Australian Federal Election.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Denver, 24 Oct. 2013.

Axel Bruns. “Twitter and the 2013 Australian Election.” Paper presented at Political Imperatives: Media and the 2013 Election Campaign, Brisbane, 27 Sep. 2013.

Axel Bruns. “From #qldfloods to #sandy: Engaging with the Public during Crisis Events.” Paper presented at Social Media Communication Strategies in Government 2013, Brisbane, 17 Sep. 2013.

Axel Bruns. “Towards Distributed Citizen Participation: Lessons from WikiLeaks and the Queensland Floods.” Keynote presented at the Conference on e-Democracy, Krems, Austria, 5 May 2011.

Axel Bruns and Adam Swift. "g4c2c: Enabling Citizen Engagement at Arms' Length from Government." Paper presented at EDEM 2010, Krems, Austria, 6 May 2010.

Axel Bruns and Jason Wilson. "Citizen Consultation from Above and Below: The Australian Perspective." Paper presented at EDEM 2009, Vienna, 7-8 Sep. 2009.

Internet Technologies

Axel Bruns, Arjun Srinivas, Abdul Karim Obeid, James Meese, Daniel Angus, Timothy Graham, and Jean Burgess. “Polarisation via Search? Assessing the Political Spectrum of Google News Recommendations.” Paper presented at the AoIR 2024 conference, Sheffield, 2 Nov. 2024.

Katharina Esau, Axel Bruns, Laura Vodden, Michelle Riedlinger, Samantha Vilkins, Laura Lefevre, and Carly Lubicz-Zaorski. “Challenges in Acquiring and Analysing News Data at Scale: A Case Study of News Polarisation in Australian Climate Change Coverage.” Paper presented at the AoIR 2024 conference, Sheffield, 2 Nov. 2024.

Axel Bruns. “AI as Research Assistant: Upscaling Content Analysis to Identify Patterns of Polarisation in the News.” Invited presentation in the ZeMKI research lectures series, Bremen, 30Apr. 2024.

Axel Bruns. “What Is Lost When Twitter Is Lost? Reflections on the Impending Death of a Platform.” Keynote presented at the COMNEWS 2023 conference, Bali, 25 Oct. 2023, and the ANZCA 2023 conference, Wellington, 23 Nov. 2023.

Sofya Glazunova, Anna Ryzhova, Axel Bruns, Silvia Ximena Montaña-Niño, Arista Beseler, and Ehsan Dehghan. “A Platform Policy Implementation Audit of Actions against Russia’s State-Controlled Media.” Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, Toronto, 30 May 2023.

Axel Bruns, Abdul Karim Obeid, Daniel Angus, and James Meese. “Assessing the Personalisation of Australian Google News Results.” Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, Paris, 30 May 2022.

Axel Bruns. "The Australian Search Experience Project." Paper presented at the News & Media Symposium of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society, Brisbane, 30 Sep. 2021.

Axel Bruns. "Digital Tealeaves: Predictions for 2009." Presented at Interactive Minds, Brisbane, 27 Nov. 2008.

New Media Education

Axel Bruns. “Social Media in Australia: The Case of Twitter.” Paper presented at the Social Media Masterclass at the Australian Teachers of Media 2013 conference, Brisbane, 4 July 2013.

Axel Bruns. "Social Media as Part of the Wider Mediasphere." Keynote presented at Australian Teachers of Media (Queensland) conference, Brisbane, 27 May 2012.

Axel Bruns and Sal Humphreys. "Building Collaborative Capacities in Learners: The M/Cyclopedia Project, Revisited." Paper presented at the International Symposium on Wikis, Montréal, 22 Oct. 2007.

Axel Bruns. "Beyond Difference: Reconfiguring Education for the User-Led Age." Paper presented at ICE3 conference, Loch Lomond, Scotland, 23 March 2007.

Trebor Scholz and Axel Bruns. "Share, Share Widely: Technologies for Distributed Creativity." Interview with Axel Bruns (adjusted by Trebor Scholz) for WebCamTalk 1.0. Conducted via Webcam on 2 March 2005.