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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...

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NATO'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...

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The 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....

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Bots 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...

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Counterpublics 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...

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Selfie 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...

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Media 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,...

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Computational 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...

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Connective '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...

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Twitter 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...

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Some 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...

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A 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...

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Gatewatching 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...

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Social 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...

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New 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...

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Now 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...

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Following, 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...

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The 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...

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Do 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...

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Understanding 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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