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New Relationships: Our Experience of the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme 2013

(by Kim Osman and Ana Vimieiro) Following on from the amazing experience that was the CCI Winter School, we decided it was time for a change of temperature and switched it....

#ausvotes: Twitter Activity across the Electorates

Over at Mapping Online Publics, we’ve begun to cover the role of Twitter during the 2013 Australian federal election. Following on from yesterday’s update of overall Twitter....

Football fandom in the Brazilian Twitterland

Most people around the world know how passionate Brazilians are about football. More precisely, around 80% of the population there is at some level a football fan, a recent....

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What we’re reading: August edition

As of last Friday, the Social Media Research Group has started a monthly reading group – kind of like a journal club helping us all to keep up-to-date with the literature,....

Australian Reality TV on Twitter: A Two Horse Race

Last weekend provided an opportunity to compare the three currently running Australian reality television series, and their social media presence, with Big Brother Showdown....

‘What’s on your mind?’ Writing on Facebook as a tool for self-formation

My new publication on writing on Facebook as a tool for self-formation in New Media & Society develops non-technologically deterministic and historically aware ways of....

Big Brother 15, West Coast Viewers & Guilt by Association

Over at my own blog, I have been running an almost-daily series of posts looking at the current US reality series “Big Brother”, now in its 15th incarnation in the US....

Moving Politics Online: How Australian Mainstream Media Portray Social Media as Political Tools

(by Theresa Sauter and Axel Bruns – crossposted from Mapping Online Publics) Difficult as it may be to believe, we’re still almost three months out from the likely date....

Towards Data Science

Hi – I am Troy Sadkowsky, and I am the resident data scientist in the QUT Social Media Research Group.  How I became known as a data scientist is an interesting story (and....

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Selling it like it is: Paid editing & Wikipedia

The origin of edits, of who is best placed to write about a particular topic, is a controversial issue in Wikipedia. Editing the encyclopaedia is a volunteer activity, editors....