Tag Archives: twitter
Twitter and academic professionalism – for Pre-Fix at #CSAA2012
(I’ve been asked to speak about social media and academic careers to the Pre-Fix event at the CSAA conference. In the post that follows I’ve chosen to speak almost exclusively about Twitter, for various reasons, not least I think because … Continue reading
Vale @Jen_Bennett’s Woollahra Council Livetweets
I am happy and sad this week as journalist Jennifer Bennett moves on from Sydney local paper the Wentworth Courier to the Campus Review. Happy because she’s a friend with a new gig and she’ll now be employed reporting on … Continue reading
Playing with politics
Another paper-spruiking post. Playing with politics (PDF download) is a reasonably final draft of a paper that will be appearing in a special issue of Convergence later this year. The special issue is about mobile media and mobile games, so … Continue reading
A good start
Quelle surprise – today brought a Twitter-baiting editorial from The Australian (link intentionally omitted): TWITTER has become the dunny-door graffiti of the digital age, adding precisely nothing to the sum of human knowledge. This week, as always, unattributed commentary scrolled … Continue reading
Brief historical reflections on anonymity and pseudonymity
I The arrogance journalists have lately displayed about the culture of online political discussion may be forgivable; their ignorance about their own profession and the history of publishing isn’t. In what Possum has aptly called the “faux debate” about the … Continue reading
Last word on #Groggate
Last word, and for mine, the best, goes to our marsupial friend over on Margaret Simons’s thread: There was never any “public interest” involved, it was always “journos interest”. When you have a gallery filled with rampaging egos whose intellectual … Continue reading
Faking on Twitter – Fake Steve Fielding
This is the third interview I’ve conducted in the course of writing a paper on the practice of faking on Twitter – this one’s with Fake Steve Fielding. (A bit of a gap this time, as it’s been very brisk … Continue reading
Faking on Twitter – Fake Andrew Bolt
This is the second of my faking interviews for my ongoing project working towards a paper on faking and parody on Twitter. This one is with Fake Andrew Bolt. (I hasten to add that this was actually conducted before my … Continue reading