ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, Week 31/2012

No, I haven’t forgotten about ATNIX this week – but a less than straightforward homeward trip and a bad cold have conspired against my getting the results for week 31 (30 July – 5 August) out any earlier. But, better late, than never, here they are, hopefully to be followed by ATNIX 32/2012 in a …

ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, Week 30/2012

Another week, another ATNIX – and the last one for a while that I have to write from a hotel room while travelling in Germany. This is also the last mostly pre-Olympic ATNIX, covering the week of 23-29 July 2012; next week we’ll see whether and how the increased focus on sports during these weeks …

ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, Week 29/2012

I’m still on the road for a number of research workshops and presentations in Germany, so this week’s version of our Australian Twitter news circulation index ATNIX has been somewhat slow in coming. On the upside, though, the server trouble we experienced last week has been addressed now, so we once again have a full …

ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, Week 28/2012

I’ve just published an article about our first few weeks of ATNIX results over at The Conversation – but here, we’re already pushing ahead with the next week’s index. This one, I’m afraid, suffers from ‘difficult fourth week’ syndrome, though: we collect our data using a server based at the fabulous NeCTAR initiative, a shared …

ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, Week 27/2012

I may be in Europe at the moment (I write this from a hotel room in Munich, where tomorrow my colleagues and I will be participating in a symposium on methodological innovation that is organised by our colleagues at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität) – but that doesn’t mean that there won’t be another ATNIX this week. Here …

ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, Week 25-26/2012

A little over a week ago, I introduced the Australian Twitter News Index (ATNIX), our new measure of how links to Australian news and opinion sites circulate on Twitter. This is a work in progress, obviously, and I’m thankful for a few helpful comments about additional sites to track and further details to extract from …

Twitter Circulation Ratings for Australian News Sites

What I’ll describe in this post is a research project I’ve been meaning to tackle for some time, but the events of the past week have given it added relevance – for those of you outside Australia, I’m referring to the announcement of some 1900 job cuts at one of the country’s leading news organisations, …

Some Brief Updates: Twitter and Television, Arab Spring Symposium

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 …

New Articles on Twitter and Journalism

Somehow I don’t think we ever quite got around to posting this: a couple of months ago, two research publications by my QUT colleague Jean Burgess and myself appeared in Journalism Studies and Journalism Practice within two days of each other. The first of these is a methodology article which outlines how our methods for …

Mid-Week #qldvotes Update: How the Leaders Compare

As we count down to the Queensland state election date, I’ve just published a new piece about the Twitter campaign in The Conversation – head over to the site to read it there. The centrepiece of the story is this graph of @mentions of the two leaders’ accounts throughout the election campaign, though – it …