Postdoc and PhD Positions Available: Social Media and the Public Sphere

At Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, where we’re based, we’re currently advertising two new positions relating to our research: a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (two years full-time) and a PhD researcher (including a three-year stipend). Both of these are associated with Axel Bruns’s ARC Future Fellowship project Understanding Intermedia Information Flows in the Australian …

Around the World in 28 Days (and 14 Papers)

It’s that time of the year again, when I set off for the usual end-of-year round of conferences – and this year has turned out to be an especially busy one. As I write this, Jean and I are already in Toronto for the inaugural workshop of a Canadian-funded, multi-partner research project on Social Media …

Project update and press release

Hello everyone, Lots of news to share but before we get into that, I’d like to introduce myself as a new member of the team. My name is Caro Jende and I recently came on board as the Project Officer for the Mapping Online Publics project to support Jean and Axel in the organisation and …