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Snurb — Tuesday 17 May 2016 20:00

Twitter as a First Draft of the Present – and the Challenges of Preserving It for the Future (WebSci ’16)

Social Media | Twitter | Internet Content Preservation | WebSci '16 |

Web Science 2016

Twitter as a First Draft of the Present – and the Challenges of Preserving It for the Future

Axel Bruns and Katrin Weller

  • 23-25 May 2016 – Web Science conference, Hannover, Germany
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Snurb — Sunday 8 May 2016 14:39

New Publications, and Coming Attractions

Journalism | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | Internet Content Preservation | QUT Digital Media Research Centre | ARC Future Fellowship | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | Publications | Conferences | ACSPRI 2016 | SM&S 2016 |

I’m delighted to share a couple of new publications written with my esteemed colleagues in the QUT Digital Media Research Centre – and as if we weren’t working on enough research projects already, this year is about to get an awful lot busier soon, too. First, though, to the latest articles:

Axel Bruns, Brenda Moon, Avijit Paul, and Felix Münch. “Towards a Typology of Hashtag Publics: A Large-Scale Comparative Study of User Engagement across Trending Topics.” Communication Research and Practice 2.1 (2016): 20-46.

This article, in a great special issue of Communication Research and Practice on digital media …

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Snurb — Saturday 21 November 2015 22:32

Social Media in Australia: The Case of Twitter (DSTG 2015)

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

Defence Science and Technology Group 2015

Social Media in Australia: The Case of Twitter

Axel Bruns

  • 24 Sep. 2015 – Defence Science and Technology Group, Adelaide
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Snurb — Saturday 21 November 2015 16:14

Gatewatching Revisited: News Curation in the Social Media Age (DMRCSS 2015)

Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Social Media | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship |

Digital Media Research Centre Seminar Series

Gatewatching Revisited: News Curation in the Social Media Age

Axel Bruns

  • 2 Oct. 2015 – Digital Media Research Centre Seminar Series, Brisbane
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Snurb — Saturday 21 November 2015 16:09

Political Uses of Social Media (Queensland Parliament 2015)

Politics | Social Media | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship |

Queensland Parliament Lunchtime Seminar

Political Uses of Social Media

Axel Bruns

  • 15 Sep. 2015 – Queensland Parliament Lunchtime Seminar, Brisbane
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Snurb — Saturday 21 November 2015 16:04

Twitter in Germany: A Big Data Perspective (GAU 2015)

'Big Data' | Social Media | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship |

Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

Twitter in Germany: A Big Data Perspective

Axel Bruns

  • 3 June 2015 – Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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Snurb — Saturday 21 November 2015 16:01

From Geographic Location to Network Location: The Potential of Big Social Data (Pivotal 2015)

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

Pivotal 2015 International Executive Summit

From Geographic Location to Network Location: The Potential of Big Social Data

Axel Bruns

  • 30 June 2015 – Pivotal 2015 International Executive Summit, Brisbane
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Snurb — Tuesday 17 November 2015 17:15

Easy Data, Hard Data: The Politics and Pragmatics of Twitter Research after the Computational Turn (AoIR 2015)

'Big Data' | Social Media | TrISMA (ARC LIEF) | Twitter | AoIR 2015 |

Association of Internet Researchers conference 2015

Easy Data, Hard Data: The Politics and Pragmatics of Twitter Research after the Computational Turn

Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns

  • 23 Oct. 2015 – Association of Internet Researchers conference, Phoenix
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Snurb — Tuesday 17 November 2015 17:04

Social Media in Selected Australian Federal and State Election Campaigns, 2010-15 (AoIR 2015)

Politics | Social Media | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | AoIR 2015 |

Association of Internet Researchers conference

Social Media in Selected Australian Federal and State Election Campaigns, 2010-15

Axel Bruns and Tim Highfield

  • 23 Oct. 2015 – Association of Internet Researchers conference, Phoenix
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Snurb — Monday 26 October 2015 05:42

Four New Chapters on the Challenges of Doing Twitter Research

Politics | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | Publications | AoIR 2015 |

One more post before I head home from the AoIR 2015 conference in Phoenix: during the conference, I also received my author’s copy of Hashtag Publics, an excellent new collection edited by Nathan Rambukkana. In this collection, Jean Burgess and I published an updated version of our paper from the ECPR conference in Reykjavík, which conceptualises (some) hashtag communities as ad hoc publics – and Theresa Sauter and I also have a chapter in the book that explores the #auspol hashtag for Australian politics.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “Twitter Hashtags from Ad Hoc to Calculated Publics.” …

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