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Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism

Snurb — Saturday 9 October 2021 00:41

Societies on the Brink: Understanding the Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation (QUTeX 2021)

Government | Politics | Dynamics of Partisanship and Polarisation in Online Public Debate (ARC Laureate Fellowship) | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Facebook | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Journalism | QUT Digital Media Research Centre | Social Media | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | ‘Fake News’ |
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Snurb — Saturday 24 April 2021 14:43

A Round-Up of New Publications

Politics | Produsers and Produsage | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Crisis Communication | Twitter | QUT Digital Media Research Centre | Amplifying Public Value: Scholarly Contributions’ Impact on Public Debate (ARC Linkage) | ARC Future Fellowship | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | Publications | AoIR Flashpoint Symposium 2019 |

Without in-person conferences to liveblog, this site has been a little quiet recently. But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t any news to report – so here is the first of a number of posts with updates on recent activities. First of all, I’m very pleased that a number of articles I’ve contributed to have finally been published over the past few months – and in particular, that they represent the results of a range of collaborations with new and old colleagues.

The first of these is a new book chapter led by my QUT Digital Media Research Centre colleague …

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Snurb — Thursday 23 July 2020 12:39

Does 'Fake News' Travel Faster than 'Real News'? (Spoiler: No.)

Politics | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | SM&S 2020 |

The COVID-19 online edition of the wonderful Social Media & Society conference has just started, and my colleague Tobias Keller and I are presenting our latest research via a YouTube video that has now been released. In our study we examine the average dissemination curves for news articles from mainstream and fringe news sources; this analysis is prompted by the persistent media framing of past research as (supposedly) showing that ‘fake news’ disseminates more quickly than ‘real news’.

Leaving aside such disputed labels, we find no evidence of any systematic differences in dissemination speeds on Twitter: during 2019, for …

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Snurb — Thursday 23 July 2020 12:17

News Diffusion on Twitter: Comparing the Dissemination Careers for Mainstream and Marginal News (SM&S 2020)

Politics | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation (ARC Discovery) | SM&S 2020 |

Social Media & Society 2020

News Diffusion on Twitter: Comparing the Dissemination Careers for Mainstream and Marginal News

Axel Bruns and Tobias Keller

  • 22 July 2020 – Social Media & Society 2020 conference, online
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Snurb — Tuesday 16 July 2019 13:30

A Round-Up of Some Recent Publications

Politics | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | TrISMA (ARC LIEF) | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | Publications |

Well, it’s mid-year and I’m back from a series of conferences in Europe and elsewhere, so this seems like a good time to take stock and round up some recent publications that may have slipped through the net.

Gatewatching and News Curation

But let’s begin with a reminder that my book Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere was published by Peter Lang in 2018 and is now available from Amazon and other book stores. The book is the sequel (not a second edition) to Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (2005), and updates the story of …

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Snurb — Wednesday 10 July 2019 01:09

Diverging Engagement Patterns with Hard and Soft News in Spain

Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | IAMCR 2019 |

The next speaker in this IAMCR 2019 session is Santi Urrutia, whose focus is on the Spanish news aggregator Menéame. This platform is somewhat similar to Reddit; it was launched in 2005, and has some 9 million unique users per month. It enables the sharing of links as well as the up- and downvoting of such posts, as well as follow-up comments, with the ultimate aim of having such posts appear on the front page of the site.

This enables a study of which news stories and categories (e.g. hard or soft content) receive the most comments or …

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Snurb — Monday 8 July 2019 17:38

Sharing News on Social Media in Singapore

Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | Social Media | IAMCR 2019 |

The next speaker at IAMCR 2019 is Edson Tandoc Jr., who begins by pointing out the continuing shift to online and social media as a critical source of news – in Singapore, some 47% of users now access news via Facebook, for instance. This also enables audiences as well as news organisations to engage in promotion, distribution, data collection, and engagement around the news.

Sharing links to the news on social media is now also a form of cultural currency, therefore. Compared to other forms of news transmission, sharing news links increases the speed and reach of the news …

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Snurb — Thursday 18 April 2019 05:26

Echo Chambers, Filter Bubbles, Gatewatching: Some Presentations on Recent and Upcoming Books

Politics | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | ‘Fake News’ | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Echo Chambers and Filter Bubbles | Facebook | Social Media Network Mapping | Twitter | ARC Future Fellowship | Publications |

As a conclusion to my brief trip to Germany this April, I had the opportunity to present some of my current work to the newly established Center for Advanced Internet Studies, a collaborative institution involving several of the leading universities in North Rhine-Westphalia. I used this as a chance to present the general argument of my recent book Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere (Peter Lang, 2018), as well as the key ideas of a new book, Are Filter Bubbles Real?, which is slated for release by Polity in July 2019.

The latter …

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Snurb — Wednesday 17 April 2019 22:57

Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism and Social Media (CAIS 2019)

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Snurb — Wednesday 16 January 2019 13:47

Gatewatching Revisited: Habitualisation, Demoticisation, Normalisation (ECREA 2018)

ECREA 2018 | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Journalism | ARC Future Fellowship | Journalism beyond the Crisis (ARC Discovery) | Social Media |

ECREA 2018

Gatewatching Revisited: Habitualisation, Demoticisation, Normalisation

Axel Bruns

  • 1 Nov. 2018 – European Communication Conference (ECREA) 2018, Lugano
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