About
This is the blog for a research project called New Media and Public Communication: Mapping Australian User-Created Content in Online Social Networks, based at Queensland University of Technology.
We’re bringing media, communication and cultural studies questions and approaches together with data gathering, analysis and visualisation methods derived from computer science to try to understand the shape and dynamics of online public communication in Australia. We’re particularly interested in what is often called “social media”: the convergence of user-created (or shared) content, online social networks, and communication; focusing on the Australian blogosphere, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube.
Research team
Axel Bruns (QUT) Contact: a.bruns@qut.edu.au | Twitter: @snurb_dot_info
Jean Burgess (QUT) Contact: je.burgess@qut.edu.au | Twitter: @jeanburgess
Thomas Nicolai (Sociomantic Labs)
Lars Kirchhoff (Sociomantic Labs)
About the project
The project is based in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, in partnership with Sociomantic Labs, Berlin. It has been funded for 3 years (2010-2013) through the Australian Research Council Discovery Projects program.
