Tag Archives: 'blogs'
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 [...]
Doing Blog Research (Again)
Snurb, 2 May 2012
Just to show that we haven’t forgotten about the blog-related aspects of our research work (which have been backgrounded a little by the recent flurry of research around Twitter and crisis communication and/or politics): Jean and [...]
Beauty, Fashion & Style Blog Analysis PART 2 (Qualitative)
Aimee Hewson, 6 March 2011
This is my final post as a VRES student, and part 2 of my analysis of eight Australian Beauty, Fashion and Style blogs – see Part 1 (Quantitative) here. In this post, I look at some [...]
Beauty, Fashion & Style Blog Analysis PART 1 (Quantitative)
Aimee Hewson, 9 February 2011
As noted in my first post about blog categorisation, I have now assessed 8 Beauty, Fashion and Style blogs to determine whether any similarities exist in terms of subscribers, style, and content. This post is part [...]
Australian Blogosphere – Categorisation Process
Aimee Hewson, 3 February 2011
Over the past few weeks, as part of the VRES program at QUT, I have been assisting Axel and Jean on their Social Media Mapping project. The aim of the project is to try to understand [...]
Mapping Online Publics in Australia
Snurb, 23 October 2010
So, we had ourselves a fine little panel on tracking and mapping social media at the AoIR 2010 conference in Gothenburg today. Below is the presentation from our Mapping Online Publics project (with audio) – and [...]
#ausvotes Twitter Activity during the 2010 Australian Election
Snurb, 17 October 2010
(Crossposted from snurb.info, where you can find my full coverage of ECREA 2010.) Hamburg. My own paper was next at ECREA 2010. Here’s the presentation – and I also recorded the audio for it, and will [...]
Mapping Online Publics: Methodological Observations
Snurb, 12 October 2010
(Cross-posted from snurb.info, where you can also find more liveblogging from the DGMS and ECREA 2010 conferences.) Bremen. My CCI colleague Jean Burgess and I are currently in Bremen for the ‘Doing Global Media Studies’ pre-conference [...]
Mapping the Australian Blogosphere Some More
Snurb, 22 September 2010
My previous post outlined a few more steps I’ve taken in cleaning up our emerging dataset of links in the Australian blogosphere (current limitations of our data are also listed there). It’s time to take those [...]
More Blog Network Data Cleaning with Gawk
Snurb, 22 September 2010
The other day I outlined some first steps in cleaning our blog network data (generated by our partner researchers at Sociomantic Labs) ahead of visualising it, and posted a first tentative visualisation of the part of [...]




ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, Weeks 10-11/2013
Hi Penelope, Soon, I hope - I'm currently overseas and updates have
ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, Weeks 10-11/2013
Hi Axel, Just wondering when you will be releasing the ATNIX for th
Researching Social Media in Times of Crisis
Great work Axel and Eidosa. It's time Qld and Australia entered the 2
ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, Weeks 10-11/2013
Correction: The good folks at Fairfax inform me that the /opinion a
An honest mistake: how to recover from a mistweet
I support Tufekci in her request for an Oops key. I agree that rather