The recent emergence of online social media has had a significant effect on the contemporary political landscape, yet our understanding this remains less than complete. This article adds to current engagement between politicians and public by presenting first quantitative analysis utilisation network tool Twitter Australian politicians. suggests that are attempting use for engagement, though some more successful in others. Politicians noisier Australians general Twitter, is due broadcasting...

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 shared media texts (such as sporting TV broadcasts) to signalling emotive states amusement despair. These divergent uses the are increasingly recognised in literature, with attention paid especially ability hashtags facilitate creation ad hoc or publics. A more comprehensive understanding these different has yet be...

Twitter is now a key platform for public communication between diverse range of participants, but the overall shape network it provides remains largely unknown. This article detailed overview structure Australian Twittersphere and identifies thematic drivers clusters within network. We identify some 3.72 million accounts map follower/followee connections 255,000 most connected accounts; we utilize community detection algorithms to major this examine their account populations constitutive...

Against a backdrop of substantial and persistent disruption in Australian federal politics, this article examines the uses Twitter campaigning 2013 2016 elections. We comprehensively tracked tweets posted by, directed at, all candidates during final 2 weeks these campaigns, compare patterns candidate audience activity across two This documents considerable shifts strategies, electorate responses, central themes debate from to 2016; we show that are line with changing electoral fortunes...

This study explores privacy from the perspective of user. It leverages a “framing in thought” approach to capture how users make sense their social media use. builds on unique dataset definitions collected representative sample 608 US users. The data are analyzed using topic modeling and semantic network analysis unpack multidimensionality privacy. These dimensions further examined relation established demographic antecedents concerns behaviors. Results indicate dominance frames related...

Social media is increasingly being used by science communicators, journalists and government agencies to engage in discourse with a range of publics. Despite growing body literature on Twitter use, the communication via comparatively under explored. This paper examines prominence scientific issues political debate occurring during 2013 2016 Australian federal election campaigns. Hashtracking umbrella hashtag auspol was capture tweets two campaign periods. The particularly relevant as major...

Abstract Previous research into social media platforms has often focused on the exceptional: key moments in politics, sports or crisis communication. For Twitter, it usually centred hashtags keywords. Routine and everyday practices remain underexamined as a result; literature overrepresented loudest voices: those users who contribute actively to popular hashtags. This article addresses this imbalance by exploring depth day-to-day patterns of activity within Australian Twittersphere for...

Identification of bots on Twitter can be difficult, and successful approaches often use an iterative workflow, applying different techniques to identify discrete groups bots. This paper presents first results the application this workflow Australian TrISMA collection, which contains tweets over 4 million accounts identified as being Australian. To our knowledge, research undertakes comprehensive identification in Twittersphere. The are then classified by bot type before proportion overall...

Sharing platforms for creative content are often closely connected to general purpose social media like Twitter. This also means that coordinated and automated mechanisms promoting such likely span both sites: spammers bots operate across platforms. work-in-progress paper presents first results from an effort develop activity metrics enable the detection of Twitter SoundCloud content.

Twitter has been a vital platform for organizing, coordinating, and amplifying voices during protests, especially in non-democratic countries. Although it is globally used protest movements, many studies focus on English-speaking democratic We overcome this research gap by investigating Persian, English, Arabic tweets the 2019-2020 protests Iran. In work-in-progress paper, we collected approximately 5,500,000 tweets, apply social network analysis, Botometer qualitative to map Twittersphere...