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....
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....
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,....