A Quick Update from Reykjavík: New Metrics!

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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 we cooked up during our week-long workshop with our ATN-DAAD project partners at the University of Münster last week. More on this soon! The full paper is also online.

The Use of Twitter Hashtags in the Formation of Ad Hoc Publics

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Professor Axel Bruns is an ARC Future Fellow and Professor in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Bruns is the author of Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage, and Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production, and a co-editor of Twitter and Society, A Companion to New Media Dynamics and Uses of Blogs (2006). His research Website is at snurb.info, and he tweets as @snurb_dot_info.