Twitter and Politics at State and Federal Levels in Australia

Here's one final update from the October conference tour, before we get back to covering new work: our research into the political uses of Twitter continues apace as well, of course, and during the AoIR and ECREA conferences Tim Highfield and I also had opportunities to discuss some of the recent findings from our observations …

Gearing Up for the Election(s)

We’ve got a few busy years ahead of us, it seems. In addition to the ARC Linkage project on social media and crisis communication which was awarded to us (the QUT Mapping Online Publics team along with our CCI colleague Kate Crawford, the Queensland Department of Community Safety, and the Eidos Institute), which we’ll carry …