Academic papers

Journal articles and other peer-reviewed publications in which the Digital Observatory has contributed or co-authored.

#ArsonEmergency: Climate change disinformation during the Australian bushfire season 2019-2020 paper #IStandWithDan versus #DictatorDan: the polarised dynamics of Twitter discussions about Victoria’s COVID-19 restrictions paper 'Most people have no idea what autism is': Unpacking autism disclosure using social media analysis paper Analysing discourse around COVID-19 in the Australian Twittersphere: A real-time corpus-based analysis paper Analyzing online public discourse in Australia: Australian Twittersphere and NewsTalk corpora paper Becoming propaganda: Critical race theory and the effect of fiction on education paper Centralising Qualitative Research in Big Data Methods Through Algorithmic Ethnography paper Detecting Natural Hazard-Related Disaster Impacts with Social Media Analytics: The Case of Australian States and Territories paper Does scientific interest in the nature impacts of food align with consumer information-seeking behavior? paper Exploring consumer perceptions of the value proposition embedded in vegan food products using text analytics paper Identifying COVID-19 misinformation tweets and learning their spatio-temporal topic dynamics using nonnegative coupled matrix tensor factorization paper Look who's talking: Professional conversations of learning designers on Twitter during COVID-19 paper Parents, carers, and policy labor: Policy networks and new media paper Politicization and radicalization of discourses in the alt-tech ecosystem: A case study on Gab social paper The 'Brazilian-ness' of Brazilian YouTube: New voices, new platforms, new television? paper The Australian Digital Observatory: Social Media Collection, Discovery and Analytics at Scale paper The coordination network toolkit: a framework for detecting and analysing coordinated behaviour on social media paper The social life of literacy education: How the 2018 #phonicsdebate is reshaping the field paper Topic, sentiment and impact analysis: COVID19 information seeking on social media paper Understanding the spatio-temporal topic dynamics of Covid-19 using nonnegative tensor factorization: A case study paper What Can Twitter Tell Us about Skin Cancer Communication and Prevention on Social Media? paper

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