Introducing Telemetrics: The Weighted Tweet Index
Back in October, as I was flying to and from Denver for the AoIR conference, I was reading a number of books about sporting metrics, In one of these, “Trading Bases”,....
Spotting Fake Followers: Aussie Band “The Contagious”
A few days ago, in the Wall Street Journal, Jeff Elder described bought followers on Twitter, and those who create and purchase them. One of the examples he cited was an Australian....
Alfred Hermida Livestream
Update 10 December: The archive recording of Alfred Hermida’s guest lecture is now available below (DW) As we’ve previously announced, the QUT Social Media Research....
MEAA Centenary Lecture & Panel Discussion
On Wednesday, November 27, the 2013 MEAA Centenary Lecture & Panel will take place at The Edge at the Brisbane State Library from 4pm. Please see the program details below. These....
A Round-Up of Our Recent Presentations
The end-of-year conference season is over, and the various members of the Social Media Research Group are returning to QUT for a well-deserved summer break. This seems as....
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Alfred Hermida Guest Lecture at QUT
We’re exceptionally pleased to be able to host a special guest lecture by internationally renowned journalism scholar Alfred Hermida at the end of November – please join....
New Book: Twitter and Society
We’re delighted to announce the launch of the first book to emerge from the QUT Social Media Research Group, in collaboration with the Junior Researchers Group “Science....
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SMRG on the Road
The end-of-year conference season is about to get underway, and we’ve got a big group of staff and students from the Social Media Research Group heading overseas to present....
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What we’re reading: September edition
As promised, if somewhat belatedly, here’s our monthly Reading Group update for September. Our shared featured reading was this new piece by Jose van Dijck and Thomas....
QUT Call for PhD Applications (Closes 13 October 2013)
It’s that time of the year again: we are now calling for expressions of interest from prospective students interested in doing their PhD research with us at Queensland University....