A new edition of Digital Media Demystified by the DMRC is out! 🔗 Find our Explainers and associated resources in our dedicated Knowledge Hub: research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/digital...
Congratulations to @tariqchoucair.bsky.social on his newly published paper, "Mapping and Measuring Listening in Public Communication Settings" in Media & Communication.
Tariq outlines the key elements of listening and how it is critical for political communication.
www.cogitatiopress.c...
Thank you @silmonn.bsky.social !!
Anand Badola presenting his final seminar.
Starting this Friday with another final seminar by one of my @qutdmrc.bsky.social PhD students – here’s @atavist13.bsky.social in full flight already…
Here's me saying it like it is regarding Elon Musk and X as a propaganda tool that is increasingly biased towards the far right.
The article is in French - in this thread are some auto-translated excerpts from my comments. Shout out to @markandrejevic.bsky.social
www.rtbf.be/article/comm...
Cover Image for: Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety AoIR Risky Research Working Group Contributors: Alice Marwick, Dafna Kaufman, Jacob Smith, Patricia Aufderheide, Jessica Beyer, Emma L. Briant, Coppélie Cocq, Laura Dilley, Sam DiBella, Radhika Gajjala, Kamile Grusauskaite, Alex D. Ketchum, Zelly Martin, Janice Metzger, Erin McInerney, Rachel Moran, John McNutt, Suay Melisa Oezkula, Victoria O’Meara, Riccardo Nanni, Carolina Parreiras, Katy Pearce, Ryan Payne, Meredith Pruden, Christian Sandvig, Caighlan Smith, Sam Srauy, Zeerak Talat, Leonie Tanczer, Robert Tynes, Antonia Vaughan, Shenja van der Graaf, Courtney Vowles, Michele White.
We are delighted to share the publication of Risky Research: An AoIR Guide to Researcher Protection and Safety, the culmination of over two years of collaborative effort by the AoIR Risky Research Working Group.
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Here is your 2025-2027 AoIR Executive Committee, taking office in October 2025! President (elected as Vice President in the 2023 Election): Sarah Roberts, UCLA, USA Vice President (becomes President in two years): Andra Siibak, University of Tartu, Estonia Immediate Past President (elected as Vice President in the 2021 Election): Nicholas John, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel Secretary: Nathalie Schäfer, Weimar University, Germany Treasurer: Robert W. Gehl, York University, Canada Graduate Student Representative: Lynrose Jane Genon, QUT, Australia Open Seats: Admire Mare, University of Johannesburg, South Africa; Rebecca Scharlach, University of Bremen, Germany; and Meg Jing Zeng, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Your 2025-2027 AoIR Executive Committee!
President: Sarah Roberts
Vice President: Andra Siibak
Immediate Past President: Nicholas John
Secretary: Nathalie Schäfer
Treasurer: Robert W. Gehl
Graduate Student Rep: Lynrose Jane Genon
Open Seats: Admire Mare, Rebecca Scharlach, & Meg Jing Zeng.
Great work from @pwik.bsky.social and the team. You can anonymously donate your TikTok data at the website below to help researchers understand how TikTok algorithms influence public debates in Australia, particularly in the lead up to the Federal Election.
ADM+S Centre Researchers Starter Pack - Connect with our researchers from humanities, social sciences, and technological sciences in an international industry, research and civil society network go.bsky.app/Jgb93KG
Responding to the Online Safety Amendment Bill 2024 Social Media Minimum Age
140 Experts say banning people under 16 from social media won't make social media safe
children have a right to be online and have fun, positive, educational, and safe experiences.
We should be enabling Australian children and teens to be full, articulate, deeply literate digital citizens.
It's been really heartening working with @dezuanni.bsky.social, @aleeshajoy.bsky.social and Amanda Levido to produce the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child's response to the Social Media Ban for Under16s Bill that was tabled yesterday.
digitalchild.org.au/research/pub...
Grey skies!
We made a starter pack of researchers affiliated with the QUT Digital Media Research Centre
I've started building an eclectic starter pack of accounts that make the internet a happy, fun, inspiring place - but I need your help!
Please reply with your favourite curated accounts - from farming to found photos, obscure etymology, music & LGBTQ history - I'm not fussy.
go.bsky.app/NkKNkeL
The sky is blue again, for awhile.
Song of the day:
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Song of the day
👏 Very excited to see this article by my @qutdmrc.bsky.social PhD student Carly Lubicz and her colleagues finally in print:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
🗞️ Very happy to see my excellent @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleague and PhD student @kkasianenko.bsky.social cited in the Japan Times today, commenting on the deluge of conflict mis- and disinformation on Xitter:
www.japantimes.co.jp/business/202...
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New day, new song!
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Yet another song :)
Another song
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Song of the day
Is the sky still blue?
Let's see how this one goes?
