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Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship)

ARC Laureate Fellowship, 2022-26

Snurb — Wednesday 26 June 2024 22:34

Breaking Points – Five Symptoms of Constructive Agonism Turning into Destructive Polarised Discourse (P³ 2024)

Politics | Polarisation | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | P³ ICA 2024 Postconference |
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Snurb — Wednesday 26 June 2024 21:49

Mapping the Literature on Populism

Politics | Polarisation | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | P³ ICA 2024 Postconference |

The next speakers at the P³: Power, Propaganda, Polarisation ICA 2024 postconference are my QUT colleague Sebastian Svegaard and Samantha Vilkins, presenting the emerging findings from an ongoing literature review of the concept of populism, continuing on from our review of the polarisation concept. Contrary to polarisation, populism is rather more clearly defined, with works by Mudde and Laclau emerging as particularly central if somewhat competing definitions.

These variously define populism as a thin-centred ideology (Mudde) and discursive opposition between the elites and the people (Laclau); such definitions have been applied to populist phenomena in media, medicine, religion, and other …

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Snurb — Wednesday 26 June 2024 21:42

Defining the Symptoms of Destructive Polarisation

Politics | Polarisation | Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | P³ ICA 2024 Postconference |

I’ve stepped in as the presenter of the second paper in this opening session at the P³: Power, Propaganda, Polarisation ICA 2024 postconference – unfortunately my colleague Katharina Esau, who was meant to present today, has fallen ill. The work we are presenting here is one of the early conceptual outcomes of my current Australian Laureate Fellowship on partisanship and polarisation, and both explores the concept of polarisation as current literature from a variety of fields describes it, and outlines five key symptoms of what we define as destructive polarisation that require further scholarly attention and empirical analysis.

Breaking Points …
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Snurb — Tuesday 25 June 2024 20:44

Polarised Media Framing of Climate Protests: A Comparative Mixed-Methods Analysis of Australia and Germany (ICA 2024)

Polarisation | Politics | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | ICA 2024 | Industrial Journalism | Journalism |
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Snurb — Friday 21 June 2024 17:23

Polarised Media Framing of Climate Protests in Germany and Australia

Politics | Polarisation | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | ICA 2024 |

Up next in this ICA 2024 conference session is my excellent QUT colleague Katharina Esau, presenting a study on the news media framing of both mainstream and more disruptive climate protests in Germany and Australia. This included both the peaceful protests Fridays for Future and School Strike for Climate as well as well as the actions of Letzte Generation and Extinction Rebellion that blocked traffic and staged symbolic protests in art galleries.

Here are the slides, and the liveblog continues below:

Polarised Media Framing of Climate Protests from Axel Bruns

How the news media frame such protests matters. Frames influence …

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Snurb — Wednesday 1 May 2024 21:45

AI as Research Assistant: Upscaling Content Analysis to Identify Patterns of Polarisation in the News (ZeMKI 2024)

Politics | Polarisation | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Artificial Intelligence | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) |

ZeMKI ComAI Lectures

AI as Research Assistant: Upscaling Content Analysis to Identify Patterns of Polarisation in the News

Axel Bruns

  • 30 Apr. 2024 – Invited presentation in the ZeMKI ComAI Lectures series, Bremen

Presentation Slides

AI as Research Assistant: Upscaling Content Analysis to Identify Patterns of Polarisation in the News from Axel Bruns
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Snurb — Saturday 27 April 2024 05:50

Dynamics of Destructive Polarisation in Mainstream and Social Media: The Case of the Australian Voice to Parliament Referendum (FGZ RISC 2024)

Politics | Elections | Government | Polarisation | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | FGZ RISC 2024 |

Indicators of Social Cohesion in Social Media and Online Media

Dynamics of Destructive Polarisation in Mainstream and Social Media: The Case of the Australian Voice to Parliament Referendum

Axel Bruns

  • 25 Apr. 2024 – Keynote presented at the Indicators of Social Cohesion in Social Media and Online Media symposium, Hamburg

Presentation Slides

Dynamics of Destructive Polarisation in Mainstream and Social Media: The Case of the Australian Voice to Parliament Referendum from Axel Bruns
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Snurb — Thursday 25 April 2024 18:02

Destructive Polarisation in the Voice to Parliament Referendum: A Preliminary Assessment

Politics | Elections | Government | Polarisation | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Twitter | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | FGZ RISC 2024 |

It is an unseasonably cold Thursday morning in Hamburg, and after a great opening session last night with Aleksandra Urman, Mykola Makhortykh, and Jing Zeng we are now starting the first full day of the Indicators of Social Cohesion symposium. I’m presenting the morning keynote, on our current work assessing the news and social media debate around Australia’s failed Voice to Parliament referendum as a possible case of destructive polarisation.More on this as the research develops, but for now my slides are here:

Dynamics of Destructive Polarisation in Mainstream and Social Media: The Case of the Australian Voice to Parliament …
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Snurb — Friday 23 February 2024 01:47

Diagnosing Destructive Polarisation in the Voice to Parliament Referendum

Politics | Elections | Government | Polarisation | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | Facebook | Twitter | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | I-POLHYS 2024 |

And we’ll finish the day at I-POLHYS 2024 with my keynote, which builds on the work of my Australian Laureate Fellowship team to review the types of polarisation that have been identified in the literature and develop the concept of destructive polarisation as a particularly concerning stage of polarisation dynamics. Our research proposes five distinct symptoms of destructive polarisation – and in the keynote I reflect on the recent Australian referendum on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament to explore to what extent these five symptoms of destructive polarisation were present in the news and digital media debates in the lead-up …

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Snurb — Wednesday 21 February 2024 05:07

Identifying the Symptoms of Destructive Polarisation (I-POLHYS 2024)

Politics | Elections | Government | Polarisation | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | I-POLHYS 2024 |
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