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Recap of DO's talk at UNSW: Social Data on the Web and Using Large Language Models for Research

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Launching new Reddit databank!

RIP Australian Twittersphere

What do Reddit users discuss about Australia's Federal Election 2025? Updates on week 2

What do Reddit users discuss about Australia's Federal Election 2025? Updates on week 3

What do Reddit users discuss about Australia's Federal Election 2025? Updates on week 4

What do Reddit users discuss about Australia's Federal Election 2025? Updates on week 5

What do Reddit users discuss about Australia's Federal Election 2025? We used GenAI to find out

100 days of COVID-19 in the Australian Twittersphere

Australian of the Year

Critical Race Theory

Government Portals survey

Political Interest Groups on Twitter

Data Governance for Human-Related Dynamic Digital Data: A General Guide for Researchers

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100 Days of Covid-19

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2020 Queensland Election

Australian Twittersphere

Australian Twittersphere Population Rules

Data Governance Guide for Human-Related Dynamic Digital Data

Academic papers

Analysing discourse around COVID-19 in the Australian Twittersphere: A real-time corpus-based analysis

Analyzing online public discourse in Australia: Australian Twittersphere and NewsTalk corpora

#ArsonEmergency: Climate change disinformation during the Australian bushfire season 2019-2020

Becoming propaganda: Critical race theory and the effect of fiction on education

Centralising Qualitative Research in Big Data Methods Through Algorithmic Ethnography

Detecting Natural Hazard-Related Disaster Impacts with Social Media Analytics: The Case of Australian States and Territories

Does scientific interest in the nature impacts of food align with consumer information-seeking behavior?

Exploring consumer perceptions of the value proposition embedded in vegan food products using text analytics

#IStandWithDan versus #DictatorDan: the polarised dynamics of Twitter discussions about Victoria’s COVID-19 restrictions

Identifying COVID-19 misinformation tweets and learning their spatio-temporal topic dynamics using nonnegative coupled matrix tensor factorization

Look who's talking: Professional conversations of learning designers on Twitter during COVID-19

'Most people have no idea what autism is': Unpacking autism disclosure using social media analysis

Parents, carers, and policy labor: Policy networks and new media

Politicization and radicalization of discourses in the alt-tech ecosystem: A case study on Gab social

The Australian Digital Observatory: Social Media Collection, Discovery and Analytics at Scale

The 'Brazilian-ness' of Brazilian YouTube: New voices, new platforms, new television?

The coordination network toolkit: a framework for detecting and analysing coordinated behaviour on social media

The social life of literacy education: How the 2018 #phonicsdebate is reshaping the field

Topic, sentiment and impact analysis: COVID19 information seeking on social media

Understanding the spatio-temporal topic dynamics of Covid-19 using nonnegative tensor factorization: A case study

What Can Twitter Tell Us about Skin Cancer Communication and Prevention on Social Media?

Australian Reddit Political Discussion Report: 2025 Federal Election Campaign (Week 1)

Australian Reddit Political Discussion Report: 2025 Federal Election Campaign (Week 2)

Australian Reddit Political Discussion Report: 2025 Federal Election Campaign (Week 3)

Australian Reddit Political Discussion Report: 2025 Federal Election Campaign (Week 4)

Australian Reddit Political Discussion Report: 2025 Federal Election Campaign (Week 5)

Election Twitter chatter: Who's sharing and what's trending

First 100 days of COVID-19 - Australian Twitter users' concerns mapped

How social media was ahead of the curve when it came to COVID-19

#IStandWithDan, #DictatorDan, #DanLiedPeopleDied: 397,000 tweets reveal the culprits behind a dangerously polarised debate

Report on data availability of social media platforms

Social Media Analysis Reveals That Most People Have No Idea What Autism Is: Impact Case Study

Social media can guide public pandemic policy: QUT research

The 2019 election on Twitter: Watergate, mums, and well-organised independents

Software and utilities

Coordination Network Toolkit

100 Days of Covid-19

2019 Federal Election

2020 Queensland Election

Analysing discourse around COVID-19 in the Australian Twittersphere: A real-time corpus-based analysis

Analyzing online public discourse in Australia: Australian Twittersphere and NewsTalk corpora

#ArsonEmergency: Climate change disinformation during the Australian bushfire season 2019-2020

Australian Reddit Political Discussion Report: 2025 Federal Election Campaign (Week 1)

Australian Reddit Political Discussion Report: 2025 Federal Election Campaign (Week 2)

Australian Reddit Political Discussion Report: 2025 Federal Election Campaign (Week 3)

Australian Reddit Political Discussion Report: 2025 Federal Election Campaign (Week 4)

Australian Reddit Political Discussion Report: 2025 Federal Election Campaign (Week 5)

Australian Twittersphere

Australian Twittersphere Population Rules

Becoming propaganda: Critical race theory and the effect of fiction on education

Centralising Qualitative Research in Big Data Methods Through Algorithmic Ethnography

Coordination Network Toolkit

Data Governance Guide for Human-Related Dynamic Digital Data

Detecting Natural Hazard-Related Disaster Impacts with Social Media Analytics: The Case of Australian States and Territories

Does scientific interest in the nature impacts of food align with consumer information-seeking behavior?

Election Twitter chatter: Who's sharing and what's trending

Exploring consumer perceptions of the value proposition embedded in vegan food products using text analytics

First 100 days of COVID-19 - Australian Twitter users' concerns mapped

How social media was ahead of the curve when it came to COVID-19

#IStandWithDan, #DictatorDan, #DanLiedPeopleDied: 397,000 tweets reveal the culprits behind a dangerously polarised debate

#IStandWithDan versus #DictatorDan: the polarised dynamics of Twitter discussions about Victoria’s COVID-19 restrictions

Identifying COVID-19 misinformation tweets and learning their spatio-temporal topic dynamics using nonnegative coupled matrix tensor factorization

Look who's talking: Professional conversations of learning designers on Twitter during COVID-19

'Most people have no idea what autism is': Unpacking autism disclosure using social media analysis

Parents, carers, and policy labor: Policy networks and new media

Politicization and radicalization of discourses in the alt-tech ecosystem: A case study on Gab social

Report on data availability of social media platforms

Social Media Analysis Reveals That Most People Have No Idea What Autism Is: Impact Case Study

Social media can guide public pandemic policy: QUT research

The 2019 election on Twitter: Watergate, mums, and well-organised independents

The Australian Digital Observatory: Social Media Collection, Discovery and Analytics at Scale

The 'Brazilian-ness' of Brazilian YouTube: New voices, new platforms, new television?

The coordination network toolkit: a framework for detecting and analysing coordinated behaviour on social media

The social life of literacy education: How the 2018 #phonicsdebate is reshaping the field

Topic, sentiment and impact analysis: COVID19 information seeking on social media

Understanding the spatio-temporal topic dynamics of Covid-19 using nonnegative tensor factorization: A case study

What Can Twitter Tell Us about Skin Cancer Communication and Prevention on Social Media?

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