Paper by Michelle Riedlinger and Brenda Moon presented at the Public Communication of Science & Technology Global Network conference 2018 (#pcst2018) in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Against a backdrop of substantial and persistent disruption in Australian federal politics, this article examines the uses of Twitter in campaigning in the 2013 and 2016 federal elections. We comprehensively tracked the tweets posted by, and directed …
Through the publication of articles written by scholars with editorial assistance from journalists, The Conversation website has become a major platform for the amplification of scholarly content, including the sciences. Founded in Australia in March …
Through the publication of articles written by scholars with editorial assistance from journalists, The Conversation website has become a major platform for the amplification of scholarly content, including the sciences. Founded in Australia in March 2011, they have now expanded to editions in Africa, France, United Kingdom, United States, and a Global edition. The Conversation actively encourages the sharing of articles on social media with share buttons for Email, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn at the top of each article and larger Twitter and Facebook share buttons at the bottom of the article.
Social media is increasingly being used by science communicators, journalists and government agencies to engage in discourse with a range of publics. Despite a growing body of literature on Twitter use, the communication of science via Twitter is …
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 events and TV broadcasts) to …
Science communication approaches have evolved over time gradually placing more importance on understanding the context of the communication and audience.
The increase in people participating in social media on the Internet offers a new resource for …
It is my pleasure to advise you that on 18 April 2016 the relevant Delegated Authority of the ANU Colleges of Science confirmed the approval of the award of your degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Congratulations on this significant achievement.
My thesis is available in the ANU Open access thesis collection: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/101191
I have released the Java programs that I’ve been using to collect data from Twitter for my PhD since November 2009.
It is suite of programs that use the Twitter Search API and Twitter Stream API to get tweets and then store them in a mySQL database. They have been tested on Mac OS X and Debian Linux.
The Java source is split into 9 Eclipse projects using Maven to bring in the external library dependencies.