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....
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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....
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....
Welcome to the QUT Social Media Research Group
Welcome to socialmedia.qut.edu.au. This site serves as the central research space for the QUT Social Media Research Group (SMRG), a group of social media researchers in the....
A Month of Vines: An early look at Vine through Twitter
With my CCI colleague Jean Burgess, we have recently been tracking the development and use of Vine through our existing Twitter tools. More on accessing and tracking Vine....
The First Million IDs on Twitter
Following on from Friday’s post, in which we looked at a number of recent accounts on Twitter, this post considers the first million Twitter IDs. When did they join? As....
Who’s Joining Twitter? A look at 1 million recent IDs
Currently, at QUT Social Media HQ, we’re in the process of developing the new version of our Twitter capture software, led by CCI Data Scientist Troy Sadkowsky. During development,....