Much of the focus of this site in recent years has been on Twitter research, often in collaboration with our various colleagues and friends around the world. We’ve tried our best to help along the development of Twitter research methods and approaches by exploring the uses of Twitter, contributing to methodological innovation in the field, …
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Moving Politics Online: How Australian Mainstream Media Portray Social Media as Political Tools
(by Theresa Sauter and Axel Bruns) Difficult as it may be to believe, we’re still almost three months out from the likely date of the next Australian federal election; campaigning during this time will become even more frenzied than it has been to date. A sea of speculation, controversy, and crisis surrounds the polls, and …
Emerging Methods for Digital Media Research: An Introduction
I’m very pleased to be able to announce that the methods-focused special issue of the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media (JOBEM) edited with my CCI colleagues Axel Bruns and Larissa Hjorth is out now. When the original Call for Papers went out we had an extraordinary response, and it was genuinely difficult to sort …
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Twitter Research: New Articles on Politics, Methods, Metrics
In addition to Jean’s mainstream media appearances during February, we also have a few more recent publications which we haven’t had a chance to feature here on the site. So, here’s a quick round-up of the latest research from the Mapping Online Publics team and our various collaborators: Working with our good friend Cornelius Puschmann …
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Introducing the Companion to New Media Dynamics
This is perhaps somewhat beyond the scope of what we usually cover at Mapping Online Publics, but I’m delighted to announce the completion of another major project we’ve been involved in: Blackwell has just published A Companion to New Media Dynamics, edited by John Hartley, Jean Burgess, and Axel Bruns. The title of this substantial …
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Starting 2013 with an Article on Twitter and #Eurovision
The new year has barely begun, but I’m delighted to say that we’ve already clocked up our first publication for 2013: Information, Communication & Society has just published an article by Tim Highfield, Stephen Harrington and me which expands on our paper at the Association of Internet Researchers conference in Salford in October 2012 and …
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New Article on Twitter and Journalism in Australia
I’m please to say that a new article of mine has been published in Media International Australia (which means I’ve now had articles in consecutive MIA issues…). The issue in question, on “The ‘New’ News”, was edited by my QUT colleagues Stephen Harrington and Brian McNair, and looks like a bumper collection of exciting work …
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CoSCI Keynote Video and New Article on Twitter and Journalism
At the start of the month, Jean and I had the pleasure of presenting a keynote at the Conference on Science and the Internet, organised by our ATN-DAAD research partners in Düsseldorf. I’m happy to report that videos of all three keynotes are now available on the CoSCI site – in particular, also check out …
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Digital Methods in Bristol
I spent today at the University of the West of England in Bristol, as a guest of the Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology network, a fabulous new initiative supported by the National Centre for Research Methods in the UK. At this first of three DMMM workshops to be held in 2012 and 2013, I presented …
Some Brief Updates: Twitter and Television, Arab Spring Symposium
The Mapping Online Publics Team is currently busy at the CCI Winter School, but here, at least, are a handful of very quick updates. First, my colleagues Stephen Harrington, Tim Highfield and I have published a brief think piece in a volume published by the COST Action (a peculiarly bureaucratic name given to EU-funded research …
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