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#asmc14 paper: Hashtag as hybrid forum: the case of #agchatoz
I’m posting this from the University of Amsterdam, where we are now well into the final day of a fantastic three-day conference called Social Media and the Transformation of Public Space. We have quite a gang of participants here from the QUT Social Media Research Group, and we’ll collect all our papers up and post […]
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Twitter set to release all tweets to scientists? Not exactly.
This Scientific American article with the headline Twitter to Release All Tweets to Scientists has been circulating around our favourite microblogging platform recently, creating a mixture of “could it be true?”-style excitement and alarm. The article picks up on a discussion of the ethics of using ‘big data’ from Twitter for research prompted by this […]
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Web history and popular memory
I’m posting this from the ICA conference in Seattle, where this morning we had what felt like a very successful panel on Web History and Popular Memory (following on from an awesome Memes panel that I was privileged to be discussant for). Our panel featured work on the history of personal media practices from Civil War […]
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Emerging Methods for Digital Media Research: An Introduction
I’m very pleased to be able to announce that the methods-focused special issue of the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media (JOBEM) edited with my CCI colleagues Axel Bruns and Larissa Hjorth is out now. When the original Call for Papers went out we had an extraordinary response, and it was genuinely difficult to sort […]
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My whereabouts, some recent media coverage
I’m writing this from Cambridge (MA, USA; not UK), where I’m a few days into my stint as a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research New England. I’m thrilled to be able to spend some quality time with the Social Media group here, including long-time colleagues like Kate Crawford (who has worked with us on our […]
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Event Announcement: Co-Creative Communities Forum and Lab
Hello! I may have mentioned at some point that I’m one of several Chief Investigators on an Australian Research Council Linkage project called Community Uses of Co-Creative Media which aims to connect Australian community arts and broadcasting via digital storytelling (and other things); I’m crossposting this from that project blog. The research has been very […]
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CCI Winter School (or ‘summer school’ for northerners) – apply now!
In my new role as Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation (CCI for short), I’m excited to be leading the team that’s organising our most ambitious PhD and Early Career Researcher activity to date – the CCI Winter School, to be held in balmy Brisbane in late June […]
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YouTube book: now out in Polish
The Polish edition of our YouTube book landed on my desk this morning, and has now joined the English, Italian and Portuguese versions on my bookshelves. That’s 3 languages down… The publisher didn’t supply an English translation of the new preface by Edwin Bendyk (time to call in a few favours from my Polish-speaking friends, […]
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Transforming Audiences Keynote
[crossposted at the Mapping Online Publics blog.] On the 1st and 2nd of September I was in London at the third Transforming Audiences conference, hosted by CAMRI at the University of Westminster. I was one of four keynote presenters – alongside Nancy Baym, Patricia Lange, and Adriana de Souza e Silva. I had a great […]