A Collection of Presentations on Twitter Research Methods

Over the past month, my colleagues Jean Burgess, Tim Highfield, Tanya Nitins and I have been travelling through Europe in various combinations to participate in workshops and conferences which address some of the key themes of our research – methodological innovation in social media research, and the role of Twitter in the wider media ecology. …

Talk about Disasters Workshop

Our fabulous colleague (and co-author of the Queensland floods report) Frances Shaw came up to Brisbane this week to participate in a crisis communication workshop at Griffith University. Here are her impressions from the workshop, and her presentation: On 25 and 26 June I represented the Mapping Online Publics team at the Talk about Disasters …

WARM in Urbino – presentation slides available

Just a quick update to say that the slides from the Workshop on Advanced Research Methods (WARM) at the University of Urbino last week are now available here . It was a very interesting day, covering everything from Lady Gaga derivative videos to social media metrics and even personality identification using computational linguistics (!) – …