A Quick Recap of Twitter Research Approaches

Any self-respecting Internet researcher will already be aware that the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) is the place to keep track of what’s cutting edge in the field. On the AoIR mailing-list, there’s been an interesting discussion over the last few days about the available tools for tracking, capturing, and analysing Twitter data – and …

ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, Week 38/2012

The last couple of weeks of our Australian Twitter News Index have been somewhat underwhelming: overall levels of news sharing on Twitter have been comparatively low, even in spite of a small blip at the tail end of week 37 which was caused by the reporting and commentary which covered the Sydney riots around the …

Talking Digital Methods in Bristol

At the start of July, I had the pleasure of being one of the three speakers at the inaugural Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology workshop in Bristol (I posted my presentation from the event here a little while ago). I’m happy to say that the DMMM folks have now also published a series of interviews …

ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, Week 37/2012

Here we are again with the latest weekly instalment of the Australian Twitter News Index. First off, I’m happy to say that the index is now also the subject of a weekly column at The Conversation, where I’ll cross-post ATNIX updates as well as other commentary on social media and society in Australia and beyond. …

New Article on Twitter and Journalism in Australia

I’m please to say that a new article of mine has been published in Media International Australia (which means I’ve now had articles in consecutive MIA issues…). The issue in question, on “The ‘New’ News”, was edited by my QUT colleagues Stephen Harrington and Brian McNair, and looks like a bumper collection of exciting work …

ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, Week 36/2012

I think I’m running out of snappy opening lines for ATNIX posts – and I’m not sure this one particularly deserves one, either: it’s a pretty average week, as we’ll see in a minute. In fact, as overall patterns go, you’d be hard-pressed to see any significant differences between the news sharing patterns for this …

ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, Week 35/2012

After the somewhat delayed Australian Twitter News Index for week 34, this week’s edition is significantly more timely – though it must be said that after the two very exciting weeks we’ve had, week 35 turns out considerably more sedate. For the moment, at least, it looks like we’re more or less back to normal… …

ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, Week 34/2012

It’s been another stupidly busy week for me, I’m afraid, so ATNIX 34/2012 is running a little late once again. So, let’s jump right in and see whether this week can measure up to the high drama we saw last time around. Standard background information: this analysis is based on tracking all tweets which contain …

Call for Applicants: PhD Researcher on Crisis Communication Linkage Project

Regular visitors to this site will be well familiar with our research into the use of social media in crisis communication – especially in the context of the 2011 Queensland floods and Christchurch earthquakes. We’re now about to commence a further major research project in this area, working in collaboration with the Queensland Department of …

CoSCI Keynote Video and New Article on Twitter and Journalism

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 that videos of all three keynotes are now available on the CoSCI site – in particular, also check out …