Different Bots in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
PoliticsElections'Big Data'Social MediaTwitterAoIR 2017The next speaker at AoIR 2017 is Olga Boichàk, who begins by highlighting the role of social media platforms in structuring specific forms of...
View ArticleNATO's View of 'Fake News' and Related Information Activities
PoliticsJournalismSocial MediaAoIR 2017The next session at AoIR 2017 is a panel on 'fake news', and begins with Giorgio Bertolin, from NATO (!). 'Fake news' is also an issue for NATO as a military...
View ArticleThe Discursive Institutionalisation of 'Fake News' in Germany
PoliticsGovernmentJournalismSocial MediaAoIR 2017The third speaker in this AoIR 2017 session is Kirsten Gollatz, whose focus is on the institutionalisation of the 'fake news' controversy in Germany....
View ArticleBots in the U.K.'s Brexit Referendum
PoliticsElectionsSocial MediaSocial Media Network MappingAoIR 2017The next speaker in this AoIR 2017 session is Marco Bastos, whose focus is on the Brexit referendum. He notes that a substantial number...
View ArticleCounterpublics in Italian Facebook Discussions of Alternative Medicine
JournalismSocial MediaAoIR 2017The final speaker in this AoIR 2017 session on 'fake news' is Fabio Giglietto, whose focus is on the discussion and dissemination of fake medical news on Facebook. In...
View ArticleSelfie Protests and the Creation of a Shared Sense of Identity
PoliticsSocial MediaTwitterAoIR 2017The post-lunch session at AoIR 2017 starts with Giovanni Boccia Artieri, whose interest is in the #selfieprotest phenomenon. Overall, online and social media...
View ArticleMedia Coverage of the Port Arthur and Lindt Café Shootings
JournalismIndustrial JournalismSocial MediaAoIR 2017The next speaker at AoIR 2017 is Catherine Son, who examines the role of digital publics in Australian print media practices. In 1996, for instance,...
View ArticleComputational Propaganda around the World
PoliticsGovernmentSocial MediaAoIR 2017I arrived late to the final AoIR 2017 session on computational propaganda, and I think it's Samantha Bradshaw speaking at the moment. She's presenting the overall...
View ArticleConnective 'Alt-Right' Action on Reddit
PoliticsElectionsProdusage CommunitiesSocial MediaAoIR 2017The next speaker in this AoIR 2017 session is Alex Hogan, whose focus is on the impact of online political communities in politics. There is...
View ArticleTwitter Bots and Hate Speech in Persian Gulf Countries
PoliticsSocial MediaTwitterAoIR 2017The next speaker in this AoIR 2017 session is Mark Owen Jones, whose focus is on social media propaganda in Persian Gulf states. Overall, there is still a...
View ArticleSome Thoughts about Internet Research and Networked Publics
Gatewatching and Citizen JournalismJournalismIndustrial JournalismInternet TechnologiesSocial MediaTwitterAoIR 2017Also in connection with the AoIR 2017 conference last week, I answered a few questions...
View ArticleA New Map of the Australian Twittersphere
'Big Data'Social MediaSocial Media Network MappingTrISMA (ARC LIEF)TwitterQUT Digital Media Research CentreARC Future FellowshipPublicationsFuture of Journalism 2017Together with some of my colleagues...
View ArticleGatewatching and News Curation: Industry Responses to Habitual Newssharing by...
PoliticsGatewatching and Citizen JournalismJournalismIndustrial JournalismBlogs and BloggingSocial MediaTwitterARC Future FellowshipJournalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery)ConferencesHaifa-LINKS...
View ArticleSocial Media, Habitual Gatewatching, and the News Industry
Gatewatching and Citizen JournalismJournalismIndustrial JournalismBlogs and BloggingSocial MediaTwitterARC Future FellowshipJournalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery)ConferencesA few weeks ago I...
View ArticleNew Book: Gatewatching and News Curation
Gatewatching and Citizen JournalismJournalismIndustrial JournalismSocial MediaARC Future FellowshipJournalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery)PublicationsI am delighted to formally announce the...
View ArticleNow Live: The Australian Twitter News Index as a Dashboard
Industrial JournalismSocial MediaTrISMA (ARC LIEF)TwitterARC Future FellowshipFor the past few years I have published regular monthly updates of the Australian Twitter News Index (ATNIX) at The...
View ArticleFollowing, Mentioning, Sharing: A Search for Filter Bubbles in the Australian...
Social MediaSocial Media Network MappingTrISMA (ARC LIEF)TwitterARC Future FellowshipICA 2018International Communication Association 2018Following, Mentioning, Sharing: A Search for Filter Bubbles in...
View ArticleThe Facebook Presence of Female Israeli Politicians
PoliticsElectionsSocial MediaFacebookICA 2018The next speaker in this ICA 2018 is Moran Yarchi, whose interest is also in the uses of social media in election campaigns. But few recent studies have...
View ArticleDo Social Media Empower Weaker Political Groups?
PoliticsSocial MediaICA 2018The final speaker in this ICA 2018 session is Juho Vesa, whose interest is whether social media activity serves to empower traditionally weaker political groups, such as...
View ArticleUnderstanding the Factors That Affect Facebook’s Algorithmic Profiling of Users
Politics'Big Data'Social MediaFacebookICA 2018The first ICA 2018 session I’m seeing this Monday morning is on echo chambers, and starts with Kelley Cotter and Mel Medeiros, who outlines the processes...
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