{"id":1541,"date":"2012-06-23T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/?p=1541"},"modified":"2012-06-22T22:53:25","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T12:53:25","slug":"some-brief-updates-twitter-and-television-arab-spring-symposium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/2012\/06\/23\/some-brief-updates-twitter-and-television-arab-spring-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Brief Updates: Twitter and Television, Arab Spring Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Mapping Online Publics Team<\/em> is currently busy at the CCI Winter School<\/a>, 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 networks) on Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies. In our contribution to the volume on Audience Interactivity and Participation<\/em>, edited by Jos\u00e9 Manuel Noguera, we outline the dimensions of interleaving Twitter<\/em> interaction with the television experience. You can find our essay \u201cMore than a Backchannel: Twitter and Television<\/a>\u201d in the freely available PDF.<\/p>\n

And on a very different note, a couple of weeks ago I travelled to Melbourne to participate in The Arab Spring: A Symposium on Social Media and the Politics of Reportage, at Swinburne University, where I presented a paper co-authored with Jean Burgess and Tim Highfield that presents more details on our exploration of language communities in the #egypt and #libya hashtags during 2011. Below are my slides (with audio), which draw on my previous blog post on distinguishing character sets in tweets<\/a>. A full article will be published later.<\/p>\n

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Inter and Intra-Language Engagement on Twitter in Arab Spring Hashtag Communities<\/a><\/strong>