'Waxing lyrical on the creative economy agenda' A seminar on creative industries and their futures
Creative Industries Faculty Research Office presents: ‘Waxing lyrical on the creative economy agenda’ A seminar on creative industries and their futures, with the launch of Stuart Cunningham and Terry Flew’s edited volume A Research Agenda for Creative Industries (Edward Elgar, 2019). Please RSVP for catering purposes by 25 November…
Never fear, humans have a place in the digital future
The future impacts of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) on the lives of human beings will be one of the hot topics at a symposium on in Brisbane and supported by QUT next week. Humanising the Future is a public event being staged by the Australian Academy of the Humanities in South Brisbane on 13-15 November. It will see…
Visiting Scholar Presentations: Dr Tobias Keller and Assoc Prof Arnt Maasø
VISITING SCHOLAR PRESENTATIONS Friday 15 November, 1.00 – 2.30PM KG X Block (88 Musk Ave) – The Noosa Room (Level 5) Political Social Bots: How to Detect and Evaluate them on Twitter Social bots are computer programs that (semi-)automatically tweet, like, retweet, or reply to other content on Twitter. Some of them enter political…
ICA 2020 Pre-Conference: 'Visual Representation and Marginality: Opening New Conversations'
In 2020, ICA travels to the antipodes in Australia, home of the world’s oldest continuous civilization, and, in doing so, presents a unique opportunity to understand how visual representation at the margins has been understood by different groups, for different purposes, and in different ways over time. The visual representation of…
Social Media Analytics Course: Using Data to Understand Public Conversations
Learn how to use powerful digital tools to analyse conversations on Twitter. What are tweets and the cultural politics of Twitter? Learn to use TAGS and discuss the implications of accessing social media data. What are the pros and cons of analysing social media data in real time? Learn how to use Tableau to analyse data, identify…
Participants required for workshops on location-based digital media (Brisbane, Logan and Toowoomba)
The Digital Media, Location Awareness, and the Politics of Geodata project is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project that investigates the ‘location awareness’ of Australian smartphone users: their understanding of the geodata they are creating and sharing, and how it is used, tracked, and valued by digital media…
AoIR 2019 Brisbane: 02 – 05 October
Conference registration is available here. The #AoIR2019 Conference Program is available here. The Association of Internet Researchers is pleased to announce Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia as the site of #AoIR2019. For only the second time in its history, the AoIR conference will cross the equator and be held…
Social Science in the Pub: Can we trust social media?
Three social media researchers will discuss the question of whether or not we can trust social media, in response to questions from leading international digital media scholar, Julian Sefton-Green. Join us for what promises to be a lively conversation! Ariadna Matamoros Fernández is a Lecturer at the School of Communication and member of…
4th Annual Meeting of the Young Creative Connected (YCC) Research Network Seminar
We invite you to attend the 4th Annual Meeting of the Young Creative Connected (YCC) Research Network Seminar at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane, Queensland, September 30-October 1, 2019. We have scheduled this event to take place just before the 2019 Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) meetings to be held at…
DMRC Fridays Seminar Series 2019 – September 13
Photo by Tracy Thomas on Unsplash We are pleased to provide details about the DMRC Fridays Seminar Series, Event 3. This is the third in our regular series of seminars in which DMRC researchers, HDR students and longer-term visitors may share their work with the DMRC community. These events are complemented by other ‘DMRC Fridays’ events…