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Snurb — Tuesday 4 January 2022 12:56

Facebook's Australian News Ban and Its Implications for Critical Platform Studies (CGPP 2021)

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Snurb — Sunday 31 October 2021 16:41

Introducing the ADM+S Australian Search Experience Project

Internet Technologies | 'Big Data' | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society | Conferences |

I’ve not yet had the chance to write much about one of the major new projects I’m involved with: the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), a large-scale, multi-institutional, seven-year research centre that investigates the impact of automated decision-making technologies (including algorithms, artificial intelligence, and other such technologies) on all aspects of our personal and professional lives. In particular, for the first year of the Centre I’ve led the News & Media Focus Area, which recently held its inaugural symposium to take stock of current research projects and plan for the future. (This was …

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Snurb — Saturday 16 October 2021 11:33

COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories in Social, Fringe, and Mainstream Media: A Trilogy of Articles, and More

Politics | Government | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | Facebook | ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) |

I’ve mentioned some of these here before, but I’m very happy to say that my QUT Digital Media Research Centre colleagues Edward Hurcombe, Stephen Harrington, and I have now completed our trilogy of articles that investigated the dissemination of the baseless and nonsensical conspiracy theory that the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic was somehow related to 5G mobile telephony technology from its origins in obscure conspiracist sites and groups through social and fringe media to mainstream coverage. For a while, such dissemination was so widespread that it even resulted in physical attacks against mobile phone towers and technicians in the …

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Snurb — Saturday 24 April 2021 13:04

Social Media and the News: Approaches to the Spread of (Mis)information (Integrity 2021)

Politics | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | QUT Digital Media Research Centre | ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | Integrity 2021 |

Integrity 2021

Social Media and the News: Approaches to the Spread of (Mis)information

Axel Bruns

  • 12 Mar. 2021 – Integrity 2021: Integrity in Social Networks and Media workshop at the 14th ACM Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) in Jerusalem, Israel
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