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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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, …
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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 …
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 …
And finally for our series of conference presentations over the past couple of weeks, here’s our talk from the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association conference in Brisbane last week. This was a bit of a strange one, as the conference schedule meant that we had to present it three times – Jean did the first one, and …
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I spent most of last week at the Digital Humanities Australasia conference in Canberra (see my liveblog coverage), where I presented the latest iteration of our map of the Australian Twitter follower/followee network. This is now based on a total dataset of some 950,000 users, from which we’ve selected the most connected 120,000 for visualisation. …
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