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ARC Future Fellowship: Understanding Intermedia Information Flows in the Australian Online Public Sphere (2014-17)

Snurb — Monday 12 March 2018 09:25

New Book: Gatewatching and News Curation

Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | ARC Future Fellowship | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | Publications |

I am delighted to formally announce the publication of my new book Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere. This is the culmination of a long period of intensive research – partially supported by funding from the Australian Research Council – that investigated the increasingly complex intersections between journalism and social media in the current media ecology. I’ve made the introductory chapter available on this site as a reading sample; it also provides an overview of the contents.

The book is designed as a sequel – not as a new edition – to my …

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Snurb — Saturday 10 March 2018 15:29

Social Media, Habitual Gatewatching, and the News Industry

Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Blogs and Blogging | Social Media | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | Conferences |

A few weeks ago I visited Israel to present a keynote at the inaugural Haifa-LINKS Symposium on Content Producers. The keynote draws on my new book Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere, and focusses especially on the news industry’s responses to the growing role that gatewatching and newssharing via social media play in the dissemination of news and related journalistic content. The presentation slides are below.

Following the initial scepticism about (and, in some cases, belligerent dismissal of) social media as a new channel for journalistic activity – a response that mirrors past …

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Snurb — Sunday 25 February 2018 14:54

Gatewatching and News Curation: Industry Responses to Habitual Newssharing by Audiences (Haifa-LINKS 2018)

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Haifa-LINKS Symposium on Content Producers 2018

Gatewatching and News Curation: Industry Responses to Habitual Newssharing by Audiences

Axel Bruns

  • 18 Feb. 2018 – Haifa-LINKS Symposium on Content Producers, Haifa
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Snurb — Tuesday 2 January 2018 15:56

A New Map of the Australian Twittersphere

'Big Data' | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | TrISMA (ARC LIEF) | Twitter | QUT Digital Media Research Centre | ARC Future Fellowship | Publications | Future of Journalism 2017 |

Together with some of my colleagues from the QUT Digital Media Research Centre, I’ve just released a new, detailed analysis of the structure of the Australian Twittersphere. Covering some 3.72 million Australian Twitter accounts, the 167 million follower/followee connections between them, and the 118 million tweets posted by these accounts during the first quarter of 2017, the new article with Brenda Moon, Felix Münch, and Troy Sadkowsky, published in December 2017 in the open-access journal Social Media + Society, maps the structure of the best-connected core of the Australian Twittersphere network:

The Australian Twittersphere in 2016: Mapping the …

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Snurb — Friday 15 September 2017 20:14

Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles in the Australian Twittersphere?

Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | TrISMA (ARC LIEF) | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | Future of Journalism 2017 |

I'm the next presenter in this Future of Journalism 2017 session, and my presentation is below. A full paper is also available here.

Echo Chamber? What Echo Chamber? Reviewing the Evidence from Axel Bruns

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Snurb — Monday 11 September 2017 11:25

Echo Chamber? What Echo Chamber? Reviewing the Evidence

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Future of Journalism 2017

Echo Chamber? What Echo Chamber? Reviewing the Evidence

Axel Bruns

  • 15 Sep. 2017 – Future of Journalism  conference, Sydney
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Snurb — Tuesday 11 July 2017 13:07

Infotainment and the Impact of ‘Connective Action’: The Case of #MilkedDry

Politics | Journalism | Social Media | TrISMA (ARC LIEF) | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | ANZCA 2017 |

ANZCA 2017

Infotainment and the Impact of ‘Connective Action’: The Case of #MilkedDry

Stephen Harrington, Axel Bruns, and Tim Highfield

  • 6 July 2017 – Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference, Sydney
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Snurb — Tuesday 11 July 2017 13:02

Dynamics of a Scandal: The Centrelink Robodebt Affair on Twitter (ANZCA 2017)

Politics | Government | Social Media | TrISMA (ARC LIEF) | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | ANZCA 2017 |

ANZCA 2017

Dynamics of a Scandal: The Centrelink Robodebt Affair on Twitter

Axel Bruns, Brenda Moon, and Ehsan Dehghan

  • 7 July 2017 – Australia New Zealand Communication Association conference, Sydney
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Snurb — Sunday 9 April 2017 12:32

Social Media in Australia: A ‘Big Data’ Perspective on Twitter (University of Melbourne 2017)

'Big Data' | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | TrISMA (ARC LIEF) | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship |

University of Melbourne 2017

Social Media in Australia: A ‘Big Data’ Perspective on Twitter

Axel Bruns

  • 4 April 2017 – Invited guest lecture, University of Melbourne
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Snurb — Saturday 11 February 2017 14:39

2016 Publications Round-Up

Politics | Elections | Produsers and Produsage | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Social Media in Times of Crisis (ARC Linkage) | Crisis Communication | Twitter | QUT Digital Media Research Centre | Research Projects | ARC Future Fellowship | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | Publications | WebSci '16 |

We’re already deep into February 2017, but I thought I’d finally put together an overview of what I’ve been up to during the past year, at least as far as research outputs are concerned. It’s been a busy year by any measure, with a number of key projects coming to completion; research publications from some of these are still in production, but here’s what’s already come out.

Routledge Companion

Axel Bruns, Gunn Enli, Eli Skogerbø, Anders Olof Larsson, and Christian Christensen, eds. The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics. New York: Routledge, 2016.

The year began with the release …

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