Social Media in Emergencies a highlight at ANZDEM Conference
In May 2014, Emma Potter (PhD Candidate) and I attended the Australia and New Zealand Disaster and Emergency Management (ANZDEM) Conference on the Gold Coast. The conference....
Big Brother 16 #Kickoff
The Big Brother 16 ‘kickoff’ (with its own hashtag) and premiere (also with its own hashtag) really got the ball rolling for this year’s version of the most engaging....
View from Brazil: Twitter as a tool for protest – and procrastination
Twitter activity this week, just like the World Cup, has definitely not slowed since the opening match. Here, we look at the shift in conversation as the tournament begins....
Brands are big winners in the ‘first social media World Cup’
This article was originally published on The Conversation, 19 July 2014 by Darryl Woodford & Katie Prowd The 2014 World Cup has already seen a significant volume of Twitter....
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....
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....
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’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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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....