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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...
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Who’s @theqldpremier?
So, I’m sure Australian readers will have noticed that some things changed in Queensland over the weekend. Sometime yesterday I noticed that now ex-Premier Anna Bligh’s Twitter account, @theqldpremier...
View ArticleEvent 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...
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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...
View ArticleEmerging 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...
View ArticleWeb 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...
View ArticleTwitter 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...
View Article#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...
View Article#creativecitizens keynote: slides and speaking notes
I’ve had a wonderful time in an unseasonably sunny London this week, which has included a keynote presentation at the Creative Citizens conference at the Royal College of Art. As promised, below are...
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Do Communication Technologies Define a ‘Generation’?
I’m privileged to have been invited to speak in the opening plenary at this year’s International Communication Association conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. The panelists were asked to speak to the...
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Twitter (probably) isn’t dying, but is it becoming less sociable?
[cross-posted at Medium] Twitter’s demise has been announced so many times over its lifetime that it’s hard to keep track of all the premature eulogies (and this one from a year ago is actually pretty...
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Our collective response to Bowie’s death is as real as it gets
[Cross-posted to Medium] On social media, the scale of the response to Bowie’s death has been astonishing. It also seems to have been as emotionally intense and widespread across countries and...
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Twitter’s Changing Device Ecology
I wanted to briefly pick up on Tama Leaver’s comments on Tim Highfield’s excellent bit of speculative forensics* on Twitter’s hashflags — namely that the the use of these hashtag emoji for major...
View ArticleUpcoming talks and workshops
Next week I’m heading off for an intense month of research travel to the UK, Germany, and Brazil. Here’s the list of presentations, conferences and workshops I’m involved in. First up is the YouTube...
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Looking back on Convergence Culture
Looking back on convergence culture It’s weird and slightly tiring to realise that it’s now more than ten years since Henry Jenkin’s book Convergence Culture was published (also precipitating Henry’s...
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YouTube book: 2nd edition
In case you missed it, the second edition of YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture is now out in bookstores everywhere, with its snazzy new red cover! Me and my latest book baby Here is the...
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New book: Twitter – A Biography
I’m delighted to share the news that my next book is now in production with NYU Press. Co-authored with Nancy Baym, it has been in the works for a while and it is a real labor of love. We can’t wait...
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