As 2011 winds down (which may also give me the time to do some more Gawk coding again – watch out for more updates soon), we’re still in the process of harvesting the results of our work over the last twelve months. Over the past few weeks, a clutch of articles based on our Mapping …
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An introduction, and some reflections (mostly on football)
#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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Social Media, the Convergence Review, and Our Research
Some welcome validation of our efforts to understand the use of social media – especially Twitter – during recent natural disasters (a few key posts are collected here) has arrived in the form of a number of submissions to the Australian federal government’s Convergence Review. The Review has the (very broad) remit to “to examine …
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A First Map of Australia, Part 2: Twitter’s States and Territories
I’m following up a little further on my post of our first, very tentative and incomplete, map of the Australian Twittersphere, for another slightly more detailed look. First, though – also in response to some of the Twitter comments to the first posting, here’s another clarification of what you’re seeing. In the first place, the …
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A First Map of Australia, Part 2: Twitter’s States and Territories
I’m following up a little further on my post of our first, very tentative and incomplete, map of the Australian Twittersphere, for another slightly more detailed look. First, though – also in response to some of the Twitter comments to the first posting, here’s another clarification of what you’re seeing. In the first place, the …
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A First Map of Australia
We’ve been neglecting the blog a little – not because there hasn’t been anything worth writing about, but rather because there’s been too much going on. So, before our big trip to Europe in August and September (more on that soon), it’s time to clear the backlog of updates. And what better way to start …
The World According to Twitter
Tomorrow, our Mapping Online Publics project team is hosting the public research workshop The World According to Twitter at QUT, in collaboration with our visiting researchers Katrin Weller and Cornelius Puschmann from the Junior Researchers Group "Science and the Internet" at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany. The workshop is the first major event in our …
Image sharing in the #qldfloods
In a previous post, I explained how to extract links to known image-hosting services from an archive of tweets, and promised to follow up with a substantial post on image-sharing in the Queensland Floods – this is that post. It’s pretty long, but it does have pictures. Here are the main points: During the Queensland …
Australian Blogosphere – Categorisation Process
Over the past few weeks, as part of the VRES program at QUT, I have been assisting Axel and Jean on their Social Media Mapping project. The aim of the project is to try to understand the shape and dynamics of online public communication in Australia – focusing on “user created content” such as Blogs, …
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Election 2010: The View from Twitter
One more time for the world: there will be a final (I think) presentation for this year of our work around Twitter in the 2010 Australian election, at the International Australian Studies Association ‘Double Vision’ conference in Sydney on Friday. This is something of a ‘best of’ of the material which we’ve already presented here …