Edward Hurcombe
@eddyhurc.bsky.social
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Academic @ RMIT. Researches: digi journalism, digi cultures, platforms, mis/disinfo. (he/him)
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This article also serves as a kind of conceptual companion to my recently funded ARC DECRA on 'influencer journalists'. Can't wait to start this amazing 3-year project next year!!
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about 1 year ago
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Kateryna Kasianenko
6 days ago
📝 New article out in Communication Theory. In it, I define practices, a term studies often use without operationalising, as things we do for a reason with specific others, driven by certain knowledge, values, and supported and constrained by language and material environments
doi.org/10.1093/ct/q...
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Elements of practices in digital publics: a model for identifying collective doings on social media platforms
Abstract. Studies of public communication in digitally networked spaces have increasingly adopted the notion of practice to make sense of patterned doings
https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtaf026
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3C
about 1 month ago
Check out the latest issue of Public Relations Review for an article by 3C’s David Micallef and Juan Feng with
@eddyhurc.bsky.social
(also from RMIT University): “Long live Darth Vapour! Examining how audiences engage with influencers in an anti-vaping campaign”:
doi.org/10.1016/j.pu...
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So cool to see this article out by me and
@juanfeng.bsky.social
and
@saysdavid.bsky.social
! It's about how audiences on Instagram responded to a government-backed anti-vaping campaign that employed influencers.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Long live Darth Vapour! Examining how audiences engage with influencers in an anti-vaping campaign
Social media influencers (SMIs) have become role models for younger audiences, making them important stakeholders for engaging young people with healt…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0363811125000955
about 2 months ago
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Kurt Sengul
2 months ago
🚨I spoke to Crikey for this story on the need for better media reporting on the far right! Long story short: stop giving neo-Nazis propaganda wins
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/05/h...
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How to report on neo-Nazis without giving them what they want
Media coverage of the anti-immigration marches was a 'propaganda triumph' for Australian neo-Nazis, who use media-baiting tactics to spread their message.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/05/how-to-report-neo-nazis/
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Ehsan Dehghan
3 months ago
Very excited to share that my book, The Discursive-Digital Link, is now available for pre-order on Routledge:
tinyurl.com/the-ddl
. The e-book is already available to order with a 30% discount! You can also read the synopsis and the Introduction chapter on my website:
essideh.com/ddl/
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Diana Bossio
3 months ago
Come and join our research network - reading group, grant proposal support, visiting scholars and industry events to come!
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It was awesome to run our first reading group of the newly established
@ntsnetwork.bsky.social
! Great to have some time in our busy schedules for thought-provoking discussions about new research
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3 months ago
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Daniel Angus
5 months ago
Absolutely pathetic.
@australianlabor.bsky.social
just rubber-stamps every violent whim of a decaying empire. Backing US airstrikes like obedient lapdogs. No debate. No soul. Just spineless war-mongering dressed up as “strategy.” We deserve so much better.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
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Australia backs US strikes on Iran while urging return to diplomacy
Penny Wong says action to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon was acceptable, but that talks should now resume.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-23/australia-backs-us-strikes/105448088
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I just wrote a new article for the Conversation! It's about how the Australian media landscape is changing, but also how politicians and legacy media are innovating to reach young people.
theconversation.com/in-the-age-o...
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In the age of the influencer, does the political backing of News Corp matter anymore?
Despite backing from the Murdoch-owned papers, the Coalition didn’t win the election. But it’s more complicated than simply old media versus new media.
https://theconversation.com/in-the-age-of-the-influencer-does-the-political-backing-of-news-corp-matter-anymore-255876
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Our article 'The discursive function of the Meta Newsroom' is out! In it, me,
@essideh.com
,
@voddenlaura.bsky.social
, and
@antmandan.bsky.social
examine how Meta's blog framed issues to do with mis/disinfo, hate speech, etc on Meta platforms during 2016-2021.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
9 months ago
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Silvia Montaña
10 months ago
Some reflections with colleagues
@nedwatt.bsky.social
and
@riedlinm.bsky.social
at
@theconvo-bot.bsky.social
on Meta's decision to end its professionally funded fact-checking model in its platforms and adopt the X crowdsourcing model with a new 'community notes'👇
theconversation.com/meta-is-aban...
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Meta is abandoning fact checking – this doesn’t bode well for the fight against misinformation
Numerous studies have shown that fact checking has helped reduce the spread of misinformation and disinformation online.
https://theconversation.com/meta-is-abandoning-fact-checking-this-doesnt-bode-well-for-the-fight-against-misinformation-246878
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ARC Tracker
12 months ago
Make no mistake, colleagues: the exclusion of humanities & social science research from national competitive funding could easily happen here in Australia. The signs & actors are already clear. We let it happen at our collective peril.
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Tama Leaver
12 months ago
It's been really heartening working with
@dezuanni.bsky.social
,
@aleeshajoy.bsky.social
and Amanda Levido to produce the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child's response to the Social Media Ban for Under16s Bill that was tabled yesterday.
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Brendan Keogh
12 months ago
It's really hard to overstate how many world-leading experts on digital media and social media are at Australian universities (I work with many of them!), and the overwhelming majority of them will tell you the social media ban is a bad and counterproductive idea.
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Brendan Keogh
12 months ago
lmao get absolutely owned, Albo. Good thing no university had already started its austerity budget and staff cuts in preparation for this policy 🤪
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...
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Labor's plan to cap international student enrolments from next year appears doomed after Coalition vows to block
The Coalition has announced it will oppose the government's bill to limit the number of international students able to enrol from next year, just weeks out from when the caps were meant to come into f...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-18/coaltion-to-oppose-internationals-student-cap-bill/104613874
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Katharina Esau
about 1 year ago
How does
#polarisation
manifest in media & communication at breaking points? Our new article identifies 5 key symptoms of destructive polarisation🔓:
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@icsjournal.bsky.social
T. Choucair,
@vilkins.bsky.social
,
@svegaard.bsky.social
,
@snurb.bsky.social
, C. Lubicz, K. O'Connor Farfan
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This article also serves as a kind of conceptual companion to my recently funded ARC DECRA on 'influencer journalists'. Can't wait to start this amazing 3-year project next year!!
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Proud to announce that my conceptual piece on 'newsfluencers' is out now in Digital Journalism!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This article traces how the news industry, influencer and fan cultures, and the platformatised creator economy are intersecting with and transforming each other.
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Conceptualising the “Newsfluencer”: Intersecting Trajectories in Online Content Creation and Platformatised Journalism
Journalists and other news content creators are negotiating with participatory platforms and entrepreneurial business models. This conceptual article defines and traces the rise of “newsfluencers”:...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2024.2397088
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