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Filter Bubbles and Echo Chambers: Debunking the Myths

(Crossposted from the Polity blog.)

3 min readJul 31, 2019

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Filter Bubbles and Echo Chambers: Debunking the Myths

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Axel Bruns

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.

19 min readApr 25, 2018

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

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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…

5 min readJan 2, 2018

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

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Beyond the cult of numbers

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

7 min readAug 8, 2017

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Beyond the cult of numbers

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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…

5 min readMay 29, 2017

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Does ABC News Siphon Audiences from Fairfax?

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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…

5 min readMay 9, 2017

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

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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 —…

3 min readNov 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…

7 min readJun 14, 2016

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#ausvotes 2016: Some Early Impressions

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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…

5 min readMay 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…

6 min readMay 10, 2016

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

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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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