{"id":1816,"date":"2012-10-06T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/?p=1816"},"modified":"2012-10-05T07:47:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T21:47:42","slug":"around-the-world-in-28-days-and-14-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappingonlinepublics.net\/dev\/2012\/10\/06\/around-the-world-in-28-days-and-14-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Around the World in 28 Days (and 14 Papers)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s that time of the year again, when I set off for the usual end-of-year round of conferences \u2013 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 and Campaigning which is led by Greg Elmer of Ryerson University; this comes at an interesting time, of course, with electioneering south of the border in full swing. We\u2019re already tracking the Twitter<\/em> performance of both campaigns\u2019 key accounts \u2013 more on that as it develops.<\/p>\n

My next stop is Helsinki, where I\u2019ve been invited to present two guest lectures to the international Masters students. The first of these will be an update of the keynote \u201cGatekeeping, Gatewatching, Real-Time Feedback: New Challenges for Journalism<\/a>\u201d, which I presented at the Brazilian Society of Journalism Researchers last year, and addresses the challenges faced by journalism in an always-on, social media-driven environment; the second presents the work which my Mapping Online Publics<\/em> colleagues and I have done on \u201cSocial Media and Crisis Communication\u201d.<\/p>\n

From Helsinki, I\u2019m off to Copenhagen, where Klaus Bruhn Jensen has organised the symposium \u201cDigital Data \u2013 Lost, Found, and Made<\/a>\u201d at the Centre for Communication and Computing. Alongside a whole raft of luminaries from the Association of Internet Researchers community, I\u2019ll present a contribution on \u201cTwitter<\/em>, Big Data, and the Search for Meaning: Methodology in Progress\u201d. It\u2019s a free event, so come along if you\u2019re in the neighbourhood!<\/p>\n

The symposium\u2019s AoIR connections are no accident, because the next stop on this trip is the annual conference of the Association of Internet Researchers<\/a>, which takes place in Salford in the greater Manchester area this year. Here, I\u2019m involved in four papers, in collaboration with various QUT colleagues:<\/p>\n