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Sony Hacking Coverage on Twitter

Sony Hacking Coverage on Twitter

Tanya Nitins, 26 September 2011
Hi! Let me introduce myself–my name is Tanya Nitins and I’m working with my QUT colleagues Axel and Jean, and researchers based at the University of Muenster on an ATN-DAAD project (see related blog post here). [...]

A Quick Update from Reykjavík: New Metrics!

Snurb, 27 August 2011
Jean and I are currently at the European Consortium for Political Research conference in Reykjavík, where we’ve presented a paper about hashtags today. Below is our presentation (with audio), which also includes some new hashtag metrics [...]

Twitter and the Royal Wedding, Pt. 2: Something New

Twitter and the Royal Wedding, Pt. 2: Something New

Snurb, 12 August 2011
The first part of this post examined some of the basic stats on Twitter use during the 29 April 2011 royal wedding. Here, we’ll try something a little different: in the tweets using the #royalwedding hashtag [...]

Twitter and the Royal Wedding, Pt. 1: Something Processed

Twitter and the Royal Wedding, Pt. 1: Something Processed

Snurb, 12 August 2011
OK: I realise this may induce some cognitive dissonance in susceptible readers while those images of the London riots continue to flash across our TV screens (and we’re now also tracking some of the Twitter coverage [...]

A First Map of Australia, Part 2: Twitter’s States and Territories

Snurb, 9 August 2011
I’m following up a little further on my post of our first, very tentative and incomplete, map of the Australian Twittersphere, for another slightly more detailed look. First, though – also in response to some of [...]

A First Map of Australia

Snurb, 4 August 2011
We’ve been neglecting the blog a little – not because there hasn’t been anything worth writing about, but rather because there’s been too much going on. So, before our big trip to Europe in August and [...]

Tweeting at the TV: Some Observations on #GoBackSBS

Tweeting at the TV: Some Observations on #GoBackSBS

Snurb, 7 July 2011
Television programmes spruiking their associated Twitter hashtags is now a common spectacle; we’re seeing this for everything from political debate (#qanda) to reality TV (#masterchef). One particularly successful example of this viewer engagement strategy was SBS’s [...]

Broader Twitter Patterns during Acute Events

Snurb, 5 April 2011
Working through our available data on Twitter use during crisis events ahead of the Eidos Institute symposium on Monday, I started thinking about some of the broader patterns we are seeing. Very obviously, a good bit [...]

Social Media in Times of Crisis

Snurb, 4 April 2011
As we’ve mentioned in a previous post, Jean and I participated in the Eidos Institute symposium “Social Media in Times of Crisis” at the State Library of Queensland today – which turned out to be a [...]

Social Media and Emergencies, in German(y)

Snurb, 25 March 2011
The German online magazine Politik-Digital, which covers issues relating to politics and the Internet, has just published a lengthy interview with me about the role of Twitter and other social media platforms during recent disasters, and [...]