After the 'APIcalypse': Social media platforms and their fight against critical scholarly research

A Bruns - Disinformation and Data Lockdown on Social Platforms, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
In the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica controversy, social media platform providers
such as Facebook and Twitter have severely restricted access to platform data via their …

Platformed racism: The mediation and circulation of an Australian race-based controversy on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube

A Matamoros-Fernández - Information, Communication & Society, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
This article proposes the concept 'platformed racism'as a new form of racism derived from
the culture of social media platforms‒their design, technical affordances, business models …

Towards a typology of hashtag publics: A large-scale comparative study of user engagement across trending topics

A Bruns, B Moon, A Paul, F Münch - Communication research and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Twitter's hashtag functionality is now used for a very wide variety of purposes, from covering
crises and other breaking news events through gathering an instant community around …

The Australian Twittersphere in 2016: Mapping the follower/followee network

A Bruns, B Moon, F Münch… - Social Media+ …, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
Twitter is now a key platform for public communication between a diverse range of
participants, but the overall shape of the communication network it provides remains largely …

Journalistic homophily on social media: Exploring journalists' interactions with each other on Twitter

F Hanusch, D Nölleke - Digital Journalism, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Journalists have for considerable time been criticized for living in their own bubbles, a
phenomenon industry commentators have referred to as groupthink, while in scholarship the …

Twitter as a first draft of the present: And the challenges of preserving it for the future

A Bruns, K Weller - Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
This paper provides a framework for understanding Twitter as a historical source. We
address digital humanities scholars to enable the transfer of concepts from traditional source …

[HTML][HTML] E-cigarette promotion on twitter in Australia: content analysis of tweets

K McCausland, B Maycock, T Leaver… - JMIR public health …, 2020 - publichealth.jmir.org
Background: The sale of electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) containing nicotine is prohibited
in all Australian states and territories; yet, the growing availability and convenience of the …

Turf wars: Using social media network analysis to examine the suspected astroturfing campaign for the Adani Carmichael Coal mine on Twitter

M Hobbs, H Della Bosca, D Schlosberg… - Journal of public …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
This article uses social media network analysis (SMNA) to examine whether there was an
astroturfing campaign on Twitter in support of the Adani Carmichael coal mine in 2017. It …

Walking through Twitter: Sampling a language-based follow network of influential Twitter accounts

FV Münch, B Thies, C Puschmann… - Social Media+ …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Twitter continuously tightens the access to its data via the publicly accessible, cost-free
standard APIs. This especially applies to the follow network. In light of this, we successfully …

[HTML][HTML] China's news media tweeting, competing with US sources

JYM Nip, C Sun - Westminster Papers in Communication and …, 2018 - westminsterpapers.org
This paper examines China's recent initiative on international social media and assesses its
effectiveness in counteracting Western dominance in international communication …