The QUT Digital Media Research Centre (DMRC) has been running various digital methods training workshops internally as well as externally through the CCI Digital Methods Summer School and the Association of Internet Researchers Conference last year in Phoenix and coming up again this year in Berlin as part of #AoIR2016. As an extension to these …
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We’re now well into one of the longest Australian election campaigns in recent memory, and close enough to election date that we should expect the general public and not just the usual political junkies to begin engaging with the parties’ campaigns. Time, then, to examine how the parties are faring on social media to date. …
Even before Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull fired the starting gun on this year’s election campaign last weekend, Australian media were very clearly switching to election mode. Speculation about any last-minute budget sweeteners and debate about likely policy settings began to pick up, and commentary about the implications of a double dissolution election was already in …
Continue reading “ATNIX: Australian Twitter News Index, April 2016”
As Australia commences one of the longest federal election campaigns in living memory, much attention will be paid again to how parties and politicians are utilising the latest tools available in their campaigning arsenal: social media. We’ve seen Facebook and Twitter used as emerging campaigning tools in the 2010 and 2013 elections already, and even …
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I’ve previously introduced my TCAT-Process package of helper scripts (written in Gawk), which take exports of Twitter data from the Twitter Capture and Analysis Toolkit (TCAT), developed by the Digital Methods Initiative at the University of Amsterdam, and convert them to a format that is best suited to using the data in the analytics software …
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In spite of my best intentions, I’m afraid the Australian Twitter News Index continues to be a somewhat irregular affair for the moment, and so this latest update once again covers a number of months: in this case, it’s reporting on news sharing patterns in Australia for the first quarter of 2016. We begin, therefore, …
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The Australian Twitter News Index for 2015 concludes with a double helping that covers both November and December – a time when the sharing of news stories on Twitter usually begins its slow decline towards the holiday season. These patterns are sustained in 2015 as well, although the drop-off in news engagement is more pronounced …
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After the political upheavals in September, which saw Australia’s fourth change of Prime Minister since 2010 with the return of Malcolm Turnbull as Liberal leader, it feels as if things have slowed down a little as the country settles gradually into the post-Abbott era. Certainly we’ve not seen any major new political controversies or scandals, …
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[cross-posted at Medium] Twitter’s demise has been announced so many times over its lifetime that it’s hard to keep track of all the premature eulogies (and this one from a year ago is actually pretty insightful), but there seems to be a new intensity in the circulation of decline narratives at the moment. A couple …
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Taking a quick break from the AoIR 2015 liveblogging at snurb.info: today’s presentation by Fabio Giglietto, Luca Rossi and Jiyoung Kim got me thinking. They built on a paper by Stefan Stieglitz and me which compared some basic properties of a large number of hashtag datasets (and some keyword-based datasets, too), and used these to …
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