Axel Bruns's avatar

Axel Bruns

@snurb.bsky.social

1005 followers 781 following 968 posts

social media and journalism researcher at @qutdmrc - views are my own, but you're welcome to share them (he/his) Also @snurb_dot_info back in the old country, and @snurb@aoir.social at the other place, apparently

Reposted by Axel Bruns

Axel Bruns's avatar Axel Bruns @snurb.bsky.social
[ View ]

And the second part of our @qutdmrc.bsky.social double header is a talk by the wonderful Judith Möller from the HBI in Hamburg.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Axel Bruns's avatar Axel Bruns @snurb.bsky.social
[ View ]

Interesting to see when those #auspol accounts joined Twitter, too. Did Labor run a big recruitment campaign for Twitter activists in 2018, or is this an organic response to the sheer horror / embarrassment / delight of Scotty from Marketing becoming PM ?

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Axel Bruns's avatar Axel Bruns @snurb.bsky.social
[ View ]

Random dataviz: I'm doing a thing with a ten-year dataset of #auspol on what-used-to-be-Twitter (😬), and it turns out there really is #auspol before (blue and green) and #auspol after Scott Morrison came to power (orange, totally by coincidence 🤷‍♂️).

(More on this later.)

0 replies 0 reposts 3 likes

Reposted by Axel Bruns

Axel Bruns's avatar Axel Bruns @snurb.bsky.social
[ View ]

🚨 Revised deadline for the M/C Journal '#land' issue: articles now due 16 Aug. 2024, issue launch 16 Oct. 2024. More details here: 👇👇👇 #mcjournal

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Reposted by Axel Bruns

cameron wilson's avatar cameron wilson @cameronwilson.bsky.social
[ View ]

Facebook and Instagram are still running ads explicitly promoting apps for creating "deepfake" naked/sexual images of people, in some cases targeted at 18yos

even after previous reporting about the ads

AND even after I pointed it out this time
📝: www.crikey.com.au/20...

1 replies 12 reposts 19 likes

Axel Bruns's avatar Axel Bruns @snurb.bsky.social
[ View ]

Oh noes, at this rate BP might run out of money for their greenwashing campaigns...

0 replies 1 reposts 1 likes

Reposted by Axel Bruns

Reposted by Axel Bruns

Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
[ View ]

Can someone start a dashboard counting number of NYT stories on Biden's age and NYT reporters assigned to the topic?

22 replies 58 reposts 390 likes

Reposted by Axel Bruns

Ian Boudreau's avatar Ian Boudreau @iboudreau.bsky.social
[ View ]

Can't wait until this thing is twice as powerful

76 replies 245 reposts 1140 likes

Axel Bruns's avatar Axel Bruns @snurb.bsky.social
[ View ]

Oh, nice - my Conversation article on the News Media Bargaining Code was republished by NiemanLab...

If Meta bans news in Australia, what will happen? Canada’s experience is telling www.niemanlab.org/20...

0 replies 3 reposts 4 likes

Reposted by Axel Bruns

Just Jim will do.'s avatar Just Jim will do. @justjim.bsky.social
[ View ]

🎶 With more hungry stockholders, and a board with the feels. Boeing's had some sad times, flown through some bad times, but this time the hurtin' won't heal… (altogether now…) You picked a fine time to leave me, Loose Wheel! 🎶

0 replies 4 reposts 5 likes

Reposted by Axel Bruns

Grudgie the Whale's avatar Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social
[ View ]

Trump raped a woman, was revealed as being in constant contact with a sex trafficker, stole nuclear secrets, is old, forged electoral certificates, was convicted of 34 felonies, committed fraud, is literally on the Saudi payroll, sent a mob to hang his VP but the opponent is also old.

10 replies 301 reposts 1045 likes

Reposted by Axel Bruns

DFRLab's avatar DFRLab @dfrlab.bsky.social
[ View ]

Our latest investigation uncovered a disinformation campaign targeting France's snap elections, using AI-generated content to manipulate voter opinions. The operation, CopyCop, used large language models (LLMs) to create fake news outlets with a conservative bias against President Macron. Read more:

0 replies 24 reposts 25 likes

Reposted by Axel Bruns

Guardian Australia's avatar Guardian Australia @guardianaustralia.bsky.social
[ View ]

Far-right and progressives react at the same time to French election results – video

2 replies 4 reposts 10 likes

Reposted by Axel Bruns

Mathieu M.J.E. Rebeaud, Ph.D 🧬🧫🧪's avatar Mathieu M.J.E. Rebeaud, Ph.D 🧬🧫🧪 @damkyanomega.bsky.social
[ View ]

Le changement entre le 1er tour et le 2ème est quand même assez frappant suite au Front républicain.

8 replies 19 reposts 36 likes

Reposted by Axel Bruns

Bebe Neuwirth (she/her)'s avatar Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social
[ View ]

Sometimes my scroll gets it right.

14 replies 154 reposts 872 likes

Reposted by Axel Bruns

Rosamundi's avatar Rosamundi @rosamundi.bsky.social
[ View ]

I do not pretend to know how French elections work or what this means for the next couple of years but there's a fash crying on the telly and that'll do, France, that'll do.

2 replies 24 reposts 382 likes

Axel Bruns's avatar Axel Bruns @snurb.bsky.social
[ View ]

Finally, if you're earlier in your research career and interested in doing a PhD with us, we also have two PhD scholarships associated with the Search Experience project.

Applications close 31 July for international and 31 Aug. for domestic applicants:
research.qut.edu.au/adms/2024/06...

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Axel Bruns's avatar Axel Bruns @snurb.bsky.social
[ View ]

And if you're interested in the full range of the signature projects in Phase 2 of the ADM+S Centre of Excellence, here's a little something we prepared earlier:

ADM+S Centre Launches New Research in 2024
youtu.be/A1jURHdng9Y...

1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Axel Bruns's avatar Axel Bruns @snurb.bsky.social
[ View ]

Strong computational skills are a definite plus as we place a strong importance in collaboration with the wider team involved in this project.

You'll join a team of other computational social scientists, data scientists, and developers in our @qutdmrc.bsky.social Computational Lab.

1 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Axel Bruns's avatar Axel Bruns @snurb.bsky.social
[ View ]

As Postdoc you'll work with a multi-institutional team on the Search Experience project. Our central question is: How do variations in search queries (e.g. clarity of expression, specificity of query, implicit biases) affect the diversity and quality of results received?

1 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Axel Bruns's avatar Axel Bruns @snurb.bsky.social
[ View ]

🚨 JOB 🚨
My @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleagues and I are looking for a new Postdoctoral Research Fellow as part of our Australian Search Experience project in the ADM+S Centre of Excellence.

This is three years full-time; applications close 31 July 2024.

Details here:
qut.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm...

1 replies 2 reposts 3 likes

Axel Bruns's avatar Axel Bruns @snurb.bsky.social
[ View ]

Fun fact: Labour was in power when Lewis Hamilton won his _first_ Grand Prix, too. #BritishGP

0 replies 0 reposts 2 likes

Axel Bruns's avatar Axel Bruns @snurb.bsky.social
[ View ]

Hmm, so if McLaren had double-stacked their cars like literally everyone thought they should, Oscar would have had a chance to challenge for the win, right ? He lost more on his extra lap than those 12s he ended up behind Lewis. #BritishGP 🤔

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Axel Bruns's avatar Axel Bruns @snurb.bsky.social
[ View ]

🏎️🏎️🏎️💥 This absolutely chaotic half-dry, half-wet, mixed- strategies #F3 race is hands down the best (and craziest) bit of motor racing I've watched in a very long time. Damn the time limit, just let them finish it ! 🌦️🤪🏁
#BritishGP

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Axel Bruns's avatar Axel Bruns @snurb.bsky.social
[ View ]

👏 Precisely. Moral panics are a poor guide for action. High time to shift the Australian debate to consider the severe mental health impact on kids and adolescents that a social media _ban_ is going to have.

Especially on the most vulnerable communities.
www.theguardian.com/...

0 replies 1 reposts 0 likes

Reposted by Axel Bruns

Reposted by Axel Bruns

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis's avatar Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social
[ View ]

Meanwhile, in the upside-down, inside-out, Newspeak propaganda world that is Murdoch's Journal....

1 replies 14 reposts 44 likes

Reposted by Axel Bruns

Stuart Palmer's avatar Stuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social
[ View ]

People think fabricated references are new. But Michael Crichton's novel from 1969 The Andromeda Strain contains a 58 item bibliography that is entirely made up.

0 replies 1 reposts 2 likes

Reposted by Axel Bruns

Axel Bruns's avatar Axel Bruns @snurb.bsky.social
[ View ]

OK, so for, erm, reasons, I asked #Midjourney for 'a smarter and saner UK', and the results might surprise you. #GE24 🤪

1 replies 1 reposts 6 likes

Axel Bruns's avatar Axel Bruns @snurb.bsky.social
[ View ]

Look it's only the most momentous part of the whole election, and @abcnews 24 can't get the sound right...

0 replies 0 reposts 0 likes

Reposted by Axel Bruns

Reposted by Axel Bruns

Claire Cock-Starkey's avatar Claire Cock-Starkey @nonfictioness.bsky.social
[ View ]

This is great from the Guardian: Analysis by the Sutton Trust suggests that Keir Starmer’s cabinet will have the highest number of ministers educated at comprehensive schools, and the lowest proportion in modern history who went to private schools.

5 replies 58 reposts 196 likes

Reposted by Axel Bruns

lowtax speedrun enjoyer's avatar lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social
[ View ]

jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava

103 replies 613 reposts 2467 likes

Axel Bruns's avatar Axel Bruns @snurb.bsky.social
[ View ]

Happy Extoryation Day to all those who observe. #GE2024

0 replies 4 reposts 3 likes

Axel Bruns's avatar Axel Bruns @snurb.bsky.social
[ View ]

Happy Extoryation Day to all those who observe. #GE2024

0 replies 4 reposts 3 likes

Reposted by Axel Bruns

Reposted by Axel Bruns

Reposted by Axel Bruns

Axel Bruns's avatar Axel Bruns @snurb.bsky.social
[ View ]

And that’s the final #IAMCR2024 session blogged, and a very good one it was too: <a href='https://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/218'>snurb.info/taxonomy/...

For those of you playing at home, that was another 15,000 words of liveblogging. Off to Social Media & Society, London, the week after next for the final leg of my triathlon.

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes

Axel Bruns's avatar Axel Bruns @snurb.bsky.social
[ View ]

Massive congratulations you excellent people !

0 replies 0 reposts 1 likes