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Researching Social Media in Times of Crisis

Researching Social Media in Times of Crisis

Snurb, 4 April 2013
I’ve just returned home from the Social Media in Times of Crisis conference at the State Library of Queensland, which we organised together with our ARC Linkage partners at the Eidos Institute, and I’m pleased to [...]

Emerging Methods for Digital Media Research: An Introduction

Emerging Methods for Digital Media Research: An Introduction

Jean Burgess, 15 March 2013
I’m very pleased to be able to announce that the methods-focused special issue of the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media (JOBEM) edited with my CCI colleagues Axel Bruns and Larissa Hjorth is out now. When [...]

Twitter Research: New Articles on Politics, Methods, Metrics

Twitter Research: New Articles on Politics, Methods, Metrics

Snurb, 4 March 2013
In addition to Jean’s mainstream media appearances during February, we also have a few more recent publications which we haven’t had a chance to feature here on the site. So, here’s a quick round-up of the [...]

Introducing the Companion to New Media Dynamics

Introducing the Companion to New Media Dynamics

Snurb, 25 February 2013
This is perhaps somewhat beyond the scope of what we usually cover at Mapping Online Publics, but I’m delighted to announce the completion of another major project we’ve been involved in: Blackwell has just published A [...]

Twitter and Politics at State and Federal Levels in Australia

Twitter and Politics at State and Federal Levels in Australia

Snurb, 12 November 2012
Here's one final update from the October conference tour, before we get back to covering new work: our research into the political uses of Twitter continues apace as well, of course, and during the AoIR and [...]

Twitter and the Media in Europe and Australia

Twitter and the Media in Europe and Australia

Snurb, 5 November 2012
A key theme in our recent research is the place of Twitter in the wider media ecology, globally as well as in specific domestic contexts. There are a number of ways that the relationship between Twitter [...]

Twitter and the Emergence of ‘Big Data’ Research in the Humanities

Twitter and the Emergence of ‘Big Data’ Research in the Humanities

Snurb, 2 November 2012
In a previous post, I mentioned the new M/C Journal article on the impact which Twitter, Inc.’s tightening of its API rules has on research into the uses of Twitter. The use of data from the [...]

New M/C Journal Article on the Harmful Effects of Twitter’s Corporate Policies

New M/C Journal Article on the Harmful Effects of Twitter’s Corporate Policies

Snurb, 30 October 2012
October has been a busy month – as those of you who follow my personal research blog may already have seen, our Mapping Online Publics colleague Tim Highfield and I have presented several papers at the [...]

CoSCI Keynote Video and New Article on Twitter and Journalism

CoSCI Keynote Video and New Article on Twitter and Journalism

Snurb, 26 August 2012
At the start of the month, Jean and I had the pleasure of presenting a keynote at the Conference on Science and the Internet, organised by our ATN-DAAD research partners in Düsseldorf. I’m happy to report [...]

Talk about Disasters Workshop

Talk about Disasters Workshop

francesshaw, 1 July 2012
Our fabulous colleague (and co-author of the Queensland floods report) Frances Shaw came up to Brisbane this week to participate in a crisis communication workshop at Griffith University. Here are her impressions from the workshop, and [...]