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Filter Bubbles and Echo Chambers: Debunking the Myths

(Crossposted from the Polity blog.)

Jul 31, 2019

Filter Bubbles and Echo Chambers: Debunking the Myths

Jul 31, 2019

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Facebook Shuts the Gate after the Horse Has Bolted, and Hurts Real Research in the Process

A public response from leading members of the Internet research community.

Apr 25, 2018

Facebook Shuts the Gate after the Horse Has Bolted, and Hurts Real Research in the Process

Apr 25, 2018

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The Library of Congress Twitter Archive: A Failure of Historic Proportions

It’s dead: the U.S. Library of Congress has officially pulled the plug on its project to create a full, complete archive of all of Twitter…

Jan 2, 2018

The Library of Congress Twitter Archive: A Failure of Historic Proportions

Jan 2, 2018

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Beyond the cult of numbers

We need a more sophisticated approach to social media metrics for editorial decision-making.

Aug 8, 2017

Beyond the cult of numbers

Aug 8, 2017

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Does ABC News Siphon Audiences from Fairfax?

Fairfax CEO Greg Hywood has been busy. His company’s announcement on 3 May 2017 that Fairfax would sack 125 of its newsroom staff led to…

May 29, 2017

Does ABC News Siphon Audiences from Fairfax?

May 29, 2017

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Twitter in Australia: How We’ve Grown and What We Talk About

There are plenty of assumptions and not a great deal of reliable data about how we use social media. Twitter, for example, is variously…

May 9, 2017

Twitter in Australia: How We’ve Grown and What We Talk About

May 9, 2017

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Echo Chamber? What Echo Chamber?

The recent emergence and success of political movements that appear to be immune to any factual evidence that contradicts their claims —…

Nov 23, 2016

Nov 23, 2016

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#ausvotes 2016: Some Early Impressions

We’re now well into one of the longest Australian election campaigns in recent memory, and close enough to election date that we should…

Jun 14, 2016

#ausvotes 2016: Some Early Impressions

Jun 14, 2016

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A First Draft of the Present: Why We Must Preserve Social Media Content

History, they say, is written by the winners — but more concretely, it is written on the basis of the records that survive and are…

May 15, 2016

May 15, 2016

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#ausvotes Revisited: Social Media in the 2013 Australian Federal Election

As Australia commences one of the longest federal election campaigns in living memory, much attention will be paid again to how parties and…

May 10, 2016

#ausvotes Revisited: Social Media in the 2013 Australian Federal Election

May 10, 2016

Axel Bruns

Axel Bruns

ARC Future Fellow and Professor in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. http://snurb.info/

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