The new year has barely begun, but I’m delighted to say that we’ve already clocked up our first publication for 2013: Information, Communication & Society has just published an article by Tim Highfield, Stephen Harrington and me which expands on our paper at the Association of Internet Researchers conference in Salford in October 2012 and …
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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 and other media forms and platforms may be examined, and our papers at the AoIR conference in Manchester in …
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It’s that time of the year again, when I set off for the usual end-of-year round of conferences – and this year has turned out to be an especially busy one. As I write this, Jean and I are already in Toronto for the inaugural workshop of a Canadian-funded, multi-partner research project on Social Media …
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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 …
The Mapping Online Publics Team is currently busy at the CCI Winter School, but here, at least, are a handful of very quick updates. First, my colleagues Stephen Harrington, Tim Highfield and I have published a brief think piece in a volume published by the COST Action (a peculiarly bureaucratic name given to EU-funded research …
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On Friday last week, I had the pleasure of presenting a keynote on the place of social media within the wider media ecology to the Queensland conference of the Australian Teachers of Media. Below are my slides and audio from the event – many thanks to ATOM Queensland for the invitation! Social Media as Part …
The emerging maps of the Australian Twittersphere which I presented at the Digital Humanities Australasia conference in Canberra in March have received quite a bit of press coverage over the past week or so, following our press release about this work. Here are some of the highlights: The Australian ran a big page three article …
(Crossposted from snurb.info. Longer post there.) Briefly back in Australia, yesterday I went down to Sydney to speak at the Australian Society of Archivists’ 2011 Symposium (staged at the fabulous Luna Park venue). My paper was meant as an urgent call to action on the question of archiving public activities in social media spaces – …
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Hi! Let me introduce myself–my name is Tanya Nitins and I’m working with my QUT colleagues Axel and Jean, and researchers based at the University of Muenster on an ATN-DAAD project (see related blog post here). My particular research interests in relation to this project center around brand development and management in social media, with …
#DIATA11: Twitter, Television und Fussball View another webinar from Stephen_Harrington Well, it has taken me quite some time to get my first post together for the MoP blog, so forgive me if this gets a bit wordy. I have a bit of catching up to do. I would recommend to all the readers to have …
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