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Patterns of Discussion on Twitter around the German NSA Surveillance Scandal
PoliticsJournalismSocial MediaTwitterECREA 2014Next up at ECREA 2014 is Sanja Kapidzic, whose interest is in how the NSA scandal was communicated in Germany via Twitter. The public sphere is seen here...
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BP's Nasty Strategies for Silencing Criticism Online and Offline
PoliticsSocial MediaECREA 2014The final paper in this ECREA 2014 session is by Julie Uldam, whose focus is on the silencing of critical voices in the online public sphere; this is an argument for an...
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The Impact of Algorithms on Public Opinion Formation
PoliticsJournalismSocial MediaECREA 2014The next speaker in is ECREA 2014 session is Arjen van Dalen, whose interest is in the impact of algorithms on public opinion formation at the micro...
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Patterns of News Sharing across Europe
PoliticsJournalismSocial MediaECREA 2014The next panel on this marathon day at ECREA 2014 starts with Sascha Hölig, whose interest is in patterns of online political engagement in Europe. Democracy...
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The Perceived Efficacy of Connective Action on Facebook
PeopleSocial MediaECREA 2014The next speaker in this ECREA 2014 panel is Cédric Courtois, whose interest is in individual action and collective efficacy on Facebook. Within Facebook, there are plenty...
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Commenting on UK News Organisations' Facebook Pages
PoliticsJournalismIndustrial JournalismSocial MediaECREA 2014The next speaker at ECREA 2014 is Iñaki Garcia-Blanco, whose focus is on discussing the news on social media, and specifically on Facebook....
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Crowdsourced Images in the Boston Marathon Attack
Journalism'Big Data'Social MediaCrisis CommunicationTwitterECREA 2014The next speaker at ECREA 2014 is Anssi Männistö, who shifts our focus to the Boston Marathon bomb attack. Mobile social media...
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From Media Logic to a Logic of the Public
PoliticsGatewatching and Citizen JournalismJournalismSocial MediaECREA 2014The final plenary on this somewhat eccentrically scheduled Saturday at ECREA 2014 begins with Kees Brants, who says his...
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Call for PhD Applications: Social Media and Public Communication
PoliticsJournalism'Big Data'Social MediaSocial Media Network MappingTwitterARC Future FellowshipWe’re now looking for the second PhD student associated with my current ARC Future Fellowship project....
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Postdoc Position Available: Public Sphere Theory and Social Media Analytics
PoliticsJournalism'Big Data'Social MediaSocial Media Network MappingTwitterARC Future FellowshipIn addition to the PhD position I advertised last week, I am now also offering a two-year, full-time...
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What If Google Bought Twitter? A Conversation and Some Further Thoughts
PoliticsSocial MediaTwitterTwitter has been in the news recently, for all the wrong reasons. Business media report that Twitter shareholders are disappointed with the company’s latest results; and this...
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Some New Publications
PoliticsGatewatching and Citizen JournalismJournalismIndustrial Journalism'Big Data'Social MediaSocial Media Network MappingTrISMA (ARC LIEF)TwitterARC Future FellowshipPublicationsIt’s been some time...
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Call for Applications: CCI Digital Methods Summer School, 15-19 Feb. 2016...
Internet Technologies'Big Data'Social MediaCCiConferencesWe are now inviting applications for the 2016 CCI Digital Methods Summer School. The deadline for application is Monday 21 Sep. 2016.Hosted by...
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Media Usage and Political Participation in Germany
PoliticsJournalismSocial MediaAoIR 2015The next AoIR 2015 speaker is Anna Sophia Kümpel, whose interest is in news usage patterns and their effects on political participatory behaviours. Mass media...
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Big Data, Compromised Data?
'Big Data'Social MediaAoIR 2015The final panel at AoIR 2015 for today is the Compromised Data panel, celebrating the release of the book of the same name. Ganaele Langlois starts us off by highlighting...
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Easy Data, Hard Data, Compromised Data
'Big Data'Social MediaSocial Media Network MappingTrISMA (ARC LIEF)TwitterAoIR 2015My QUT DMRC colleague Jean Burgess and I are next at AoIR 2015, presenting the core points from our chapter "Easy...
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Reverse-Engineering Social Media Platforms
'Big Data'Social MediaAoIR 2015The next speaker in the Compromised Data session at AoIR 2015 is Robert Gehl, whose focus is on the effects of corporate social media. There is a conflict between the...
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Moving beyond First-Person Platform Studies
'Big Data'Social MediaAoIR 2015Finally in this AoIR 2015 session, we move on to Greg Elmer, one of the editors of Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data. His contribution is focussed on the...
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Understanding the Uses of Political Bots
PoliticsSocial MediaAoIR 2015The final day of AoIR 2015 has dawned, and it begins with a paper by Samuel Woolley; his interest is in political bots. Bots are software tools that automate human tasks on...
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The Changing Features of Communication on Twitter
Social MediaTwitterAoIR 2015Up next in this AoIR 2015 session is Sava Saheli Singh, whose focus is on subverting social media. Our use of such social media, such as Twitter, is shaped by the biases...
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