This week’s ATNIX was always going to be centrally about one thing: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s extraordinary, sustained, and (it seems?) largely unscripted attack of Opposition Leader Tony Abbott’s misogynistic worldviews (as she describes them). The fact that, as I write this from a Copenhagen hotel room, the 15-minute video of what can only …
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As I write this, the controversy over Alan Jones’s indefensible remarks about the Prime Minister’s late father continues – fuelled by Jones’s belligerent apology, the withdrawal of advertisers from Jones’s show, and radio station 2GB’s embarrassing attempts to portray Jones and itself as the victims of cyberbullying, or even of cyberterrorism. News of Jones’s remarks …
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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 …
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Those of us who follow the Australian media don’t need ATNIX to tell us that it’s been an eventful week, driven towards the end especially by the coverage of Alan Jones’s indefensible comments about the Prime Minister’s late father. But what our Australian Twitter News Index can do is to provide us with quantitative evidence …
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Any self-respecting Internet researcher will already be aware that the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) is the place to keep track of what’s cutting edge in the field. On the AoIR mailing-list, there’s been an interesting discussion over the last few days about the available tools for tracking, capturing, and analysing Twitter data – and …
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The last couple of weeks of our Australian Twitter News Index have been somewhat underwhelming: overall levels of news sharing on Twitter have been comparatively low, even in spite of a small blip at the tail end of week 37 which was caused by the reporting and commentary which covered the Sydney riots around the …
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At the start of July, I had the pleasure of being one of the three speakers at the inaugural Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology workshop in Bristol (I posted my presentation from the event here a little while ago). I’m happy to say that the DMMM folks have now also published a series of interviews …
Here we are again with the latest weekly instalment of the Australian Twitter News Index. First off, I’m happy to say that the index is now also the subject of a weekly column at The Conversation, where I’ll cross-post ATNIX updates as well as other commentary on social media and society in Australia and beyond. …
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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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I think I’m running out of snappy opening lines for ATNIX posts – and I’m not sure this one particularly deserves one, either: it’s a pretty average week, as we’ll see in a minute. In fact, as overall patterns go, you’d be hard-pressed to see any significant differences between the news sharing patterns for this …
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