New media and public communication
This project brings media, communication and cultural studies questions and approaches together with data gathering, analysing and visualisation methods derived from computer science to try to understand the shape and dynamics of online public communication in Australia, particularly the Australian blogosphere, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube.
Project team
Investigators
- Professor Axel Bruns
- Professor Jean Burgess
- Thomas Nicolai, Sociomantic Labs
- Lars Kirchhoff, Sociomantic Labs
Project partner
- Sociomantic Labs
Project funding
- ARC Discovery Project (2010-2013)
