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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?
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Australian Reddit Political Discussion Report: 2025 Federal Election Campaign (Week 1)
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Australian Reddit Political Discussion Report: 2025 Federal Election Campaign (Week 3)
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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
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ADOReD
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
AusReddit
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
Foursquare
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
NewsTalk
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
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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
tidy_tweet
Topic, sentiment and impact analysis: COVID19 information seeking on social media
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tweetexploR
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?
youte
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