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Talking Crises in Perth

Snurb, 2 October 2011
I was briefly in Perth on Friday, to present our research into the use of Twitter for crisis communication during recent natural disasters at the RightClick 2011 event organised by the Institute for Public Administration Australia. [...]

A Belated Post of Our DIATA11 Keynote, and More…

Snurb, 20 September 2011
It’s been a busy few days: last week, Jean, Stephen and I participated in the magnificent Düsseldorf Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Twitter Analysis (DIATA11), which our colleagues and collaboration partners from the University of Düsseldorf [...]

Transforming Audiences Keynote

Transforming Audiences Keynote

Jean Burgess, 13 September 2011
On the 1st and 2nd of September I was in London at the third Transforming Audiences conference, hosted by CAMRI at the University of Westminster. I was one of four [...]

Quick Update from the Road: Twitter Research Methods

Snurb, 9 September 2011
Cardiff. Another week, another presentation: Jean, Stephen, and I have now made it to Cardiff, where we’re participating in the Future of Journalism conference. Today, we presented our paper on Twitter research methods for journalists and [...]

Talking Twitter in Amsterdam

Snurb, 5 September 2011
Amsterdam. After the ECPR conference in Reykjavík, I’ve been lucky enough to spend a week in Amsterdam, where I was invited to present a guest lecture as part of the festive opening of the University of [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Looking Back at ‘The World According to Twitter’

carojende, 27 July 2011
About a month ago now, more than 15 Australian and international researchers as well as industry representatives came together at QUT to participate in the interdisciplinary research workshop The World According to Twitter (#WAT11) which set [...]

Emergency Management Conference

Snurb, 12 July 2011
I’m pushing my luck by heading down to Melbourne again tomorrow – hopefully without being held up by ash clouds, pilot strikes, or any other unforeseen disruptions, this time. I’m there to speak at the Emergence [...]

The World According to Twitter

Snurb, 27 June 2011
Tomorrow, our Mapping Online Publics project team is hosting the public research workshop The World According to Twitter at QUT, in collaboration with our visiting researchers Katrin Weller and Cornelius Puschmann from the Junior Researchers Group [...]