I’m afraid our Australian Twitter News Index still hasn’t quite returned to its normal weekly rhythm – so here is another multi-week round-up of how Twitter users shared links to Australian news sites…
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Our Australian Twitter News Index still hasn’t quite returned from holidays, so what follows in this post is another multi-week round-up, covering the four weeks of January 2013. We’ll get back into our…
My previous post rounded out our weekly observations of the ebbs and flows in Twitter newssharing during the second half of 2012. This means it’s time now to review the overall patterns which our Australian…
The Australian Twitter News Index (ATNIX) took a break from weekly updates over the summer, but we’re spinning up again for 2013 now. Before we get to the most recent developments, though, it’s time to…
We start this week’s ATNIX with a brief detour – please bear with me, or just skip down to the next section if you’re only interested in this week’s results. The approach to researching the uses of Twitter…
The latest edition of our Australian Twitter News Index arrives in a somewhat more timely fashion than the previous one did. Unfortunately, though, our data are somewhat compromised by the fact that regular…
This week’s ATNIX arrives with some delay, due to other work commitments, to the point that it’s almost time already to begin work on ATNIX 46/2012. So, without further ado, let’s jump right in and examine…
Last week’s Australian Twitter News Index turned out to be relatively quiet once we filtered out the blatant spam for a hair growth product, which unfairly boosted the number of news.com.au links shared…
This article, authored by Jean Burgess, Farida Vis, and Axel Bruns, first appeared in The Guardian_‘s “Data Blog”, and is reproduced here by kind permission._ Crisis events today (from wars and uprisings…
Before we get to the core of this week’s Australian Twitter News Index, a small excursion into the grubbier regions of the Twittersphere is necessary, I’m afraid. Every week, we track all the tweets which…
Much has been said about the national and global response to Julia Gillard’s extraordinary attack on Tony Abbott, which dominated the Australian Twitter News Index for week 41/2012 – but sooner or later…
This week’s ATNIX was always going to be centrally about one thing: Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s extraordinary, sustained, and (it seems?) largely unscripted attack of Opposition Leader Tony…
As I write this, the controversy over Alan Jones’s indefensible remarks about the Prime Minister’s late father continues – fuelled by Jones’s belligerent apology, the withdrawal of advertisers from Jones’s…
Those of us who follow the Australian media don’t need ATNIX to tell us that it’s been an eventful week, driven towards the end especially by the coverage of Alan Jones’s indefensible comments about the…
The last couple of weeks of our Australian Twitter News Index have been somewhat underwhelming: overall levels of news sharing on Twitter have been comparatively low, even in spite of a small blip at the…
Here we are again with the latest weekly instalment of the Australian Twitter News Index. As it turns out, this week is yet another quiet one – so much so that I’m starting to wonder whether there’s some…
Finally for this quick burst of ATNIX updates to inaugurate the new column, let’s move on to week 36 – frankly, a pretty average week, as we’ll see in a minute. In fact, as overall patterns go, you’d be…
Following hot on the heels of our Australian Twitter News Index for week 34, the following week’s edition is turns out considerably more sedate. For the moment, at least, it looks like we’re more or less…
I’m very pleased to say that we’ve now converted the Australian Twitter News Index into a regular column on The Conversation. To get us started, here are the past few weeks’ worth of ATNIX updates now…
Last week I complained about things getting boring. The previous Australian Twitter news circulation index (ATNIX) – an index of reader engagement measuring how links to Australian news sites are shared…
Following on from our previous coverage of the Australian Twitter news circulation index (ATNIX), here are the results for week 32 of this year. ATNIX tracks the sharing of links to Australian news sites…
News of significant job losses and organisational restructuring at Fairfax has thrown new spotlight onto the continuing transformation of the Australian media landscape. It’s clear that newspapers in their…
The Olympic Games are a fascinating yardstick for how much things have changed in the preceding four years. As Beijing’s fake fireworks beamed across our TV screens, Kevin Rudd was still Prime Minister…
With every recent election, in Australia as well as elsewhere, parties and politicians are adding further to their arsenal of digital campaigning tools. In the 2010 federal election campaign, my colleagues…
For major brands, the road to social media infamy is paved with what seemed like good ideas at the time. Just this week, Qantas succeeded in having Twitter suspend the well-known spoof account, @QantasPR…
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