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🔗 Register here to attend the launch and receive a copy of the report: events.humanitix.com/engaged-jour... @skpark.bsky.social

🤔 What do news audiences want from local news? 📰 What do they think is poorly covered or missing? 📝 How involved are news audiences in the production and dissemination of local news? Our new report addresses these and other pressing questions for those living in regional parts of the country.

I reached a satisfying milestone today: 1 million reads of my 24 career-to-date articles published in @theconversation.com. I genuinely enjoy translating research for public benefit through these pieces and look forward to hopefully continuing to do so for many years into the future.

📣 We're happy to announce that the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies will be hosting the 5th ECREA Journalism Studies section conference in Groningen, The Netherlands, on April 9th-10th, 2026! Join us and submit your abstract before August 22nd. Find the CfP here: www.rug.nl/research/ico...

If you've ever wondered what the news market looks like on Facebook, here is my latest article on Australian news diversity on Facebook, published in MIA. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Check out the latest edition of @Social Sciences for an article by 3C’s @dbossio.bsky.social with Andrea Carson (La Trobe University): “Who Really Leads? A Qualitative Exploration of Gender Equity in Leadership of Australian Newsrooms” doi.org/10.3390/socs... #journalism #genderequity

🌟 New Release Alert! Volume 195, Number 1 — May 2025 of MIA is here! Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/miad/195... #MIAjournal #MediaInternationalAustralia #EnvironmentalCommunication #ClimateAction #EnergyJustice #MediaDiversity #IndigenousVoices #JournalismStudies #NewRelease

✨ New article out in Social Media + Society on "The Quality of Connections" ✨ or how reciprocity & #listening can counter destructive #polarisation dynamics online 🧠 Read here (open access 🔓): journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Three years ago, I wrote this rapid ramble of a blog, "The kids are not ok", following my experience of a failed climate lecture. It remains the most read piece I have ever written. I just looked at it again: I can see why. It's ... just honest. jksteinberger.medium.com/the-kids-are...

With fact-checkers being replaced by Community Notes on platforms, our cross-country comparative study on individual news authentication/verification published on IJPP offers some key insights. Check it out 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... with @winsonpeng2011.bsky.social & Xinzhi Zhang

Examining journalists' collective disconnection, @dbossio.bsky.social, @journoscholar.bsky.social Avery Holton @loganex.bsky.social show how experience sharing & internal training drive systemic change to protect journalists' well-being from the organizational demand for connectivity bit.ly/3WQCskv

Here’s an interesting study from colleagues at Monash on social media and civic values: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Very, very timely: our brilliant @qutdmrc.bsky.social podcast team has covered #Meta's phasing out of #factchecking (in the US, "for now") in the first #ReadThemSideways episode for 2025:

Inman-Grant is far from perfect, and often waaaaay too reluctant to call bullshit bullshit, but hidden in here is a valuable deconstruction of Australia's manufactured moral panic over 🫨 teh kids on teh social medias 🫨. 👇👇👇

Don't get me wrong. A tax on Big Tech to support journalism is a solid idea, but this "negotiate or else" setup is broken. It shouldn’t be a backstop for failed deals; it should be the system! A transparent, fair tax with clear quality benchmarks would serve the public far better than backroom deals

This is quite a clever incentive in that it is *less expensive* for platforms if they do make deals with media outlets. In other words, it was basically written for Meta, who have walked away from the bargaining table www.news.com.au/technology/o...

I was given about 35 seconds to write a quick update for The Conversation on the news media bargaining code and what is essentially the Albanese govt trying to force Meta back to the bargaining table with a a fully offset levy. You can read about it here: theconversation.com/news-bargain...

I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired. History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them. Signed, a physicist

As “under 16” is being encoded into social media policy as “childhood”, take a look at the Australian children serving your takeaway and packing your groceries. They’re being paid 36.8% of the adult minimum wage, and very big businesses depend on them. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Completely ideological and will be utterly devastating.

Such a good #AANZCA conference at RMIT!! Thank you to @dbossio.bsky.social @jammh.bsky.social @dhutchman.bsky.social for organising and @katemannell.bsky.social your #digitalchild research. Stoked to share my early research on ADHD and screen time

Ok that was *brilliant*. I think we could’ve easily continued the Q&A for another hour :) The four speakers presented in a lifecourse order, and we covered mothers’ smartphone use, the datafication of parenting, screen time, and pornography. I learned so much, both as a scholar and as a 🤰🏻 person.

Very excited to be at the Digital Parenting #AANZCA24 panel this morning! A stellar line-up of exciting papers coming out of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child 🇦🇺

I feel so proud to announce that my first book - The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life - will be published in March 2025, by @ucpress.bsky.social 🫶🏼

Two conferences to wrap up my work year, with two sessions reflecting my alt take on the genAI insanity of the last couple of years. Thanks to #AANZCA and #ArtificialVisionaries for having me!

Finished up a fabulous #aanzca24 with a fractured portrait starring @kathaesa.bsky.social @nedwatt.bsky.social @inesengelmann.bsky.social … i guess befitting a conference where I presented on visual misinformation?

Delighted to announce the launch of M/C Journal issue 27.6: ‘#artificial’, edited by Angelique Nairn and Lorna Piatti-Farnell. A real bumper issue, as you might imagine from the theme. #mcjournal (Should be very much of interest to #AANZCA24 delegates as well…) journal.media-cultur...#artificial’,

This is a really great issue, and I'd encourage folks have a look at the 'artificial' issue of the M/C Journal: journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mc... (Yes, I've got a co-authored paper in it and think it's worth your time, but even if I didn't there's quite a few real gems to be found!)

Joint #AANZCA24 and #JERAA session to wrap up the week

Sorry to be missing this, #AANZCA24 and #JERAA24 cousins, but I’m off to Sydney for my keynote at #ACSPRI24 on Friday… Assuming this Qantas flight ever boards, that is.

A really enriching #AANZCA24 as always. Love seeing the strong intergenerational tradition continue with so much wonderful work from PhD and Masters students. Big thanks to the organisers and my brilliant co-panelists ✨

Thrilled to have presented a paper at #aanzca24 today! I shared my work on developing a web app that allowed research participants to submit close-to-real-time scam data

Science Gallery Melbourne to wrap #aanzca24

Presented my methods and early findings of my research on Twitch livestream humour across platforms at #aanzca24 earlier this week as part of a PhD candidate panel with Wenjia Tang, @tianyizhangshao.bsky.social, and @yiwenw.bsky.social. More at geofflearnstobefunny.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/a...

Very excited to be heading to #aanzca24 this morning - I’ll be there after dropping in to chat videogames, regulation, and youf on the Conversation Hour on ABC Melbourne.

@ysabel.bsky.social about to keynote on youth and social media. Excellent timing for the current Australian political moment #AANZCA24

Previewing The Kids are Online #AANZCA24 www.ucpress.edu/books/the-ki...

What an excellent #AANZCA24 keynote on young people and social media by @ysabel.bsky.social. If only @albomp.bsky.social and his pearl-clutchers could be made to listen to this, rather than falling prey to utter charlatans like Jean Twenge and Jonathan Haidt. Liveblog: snurb.info/node/3260

Fantastic #aanzca24 plenary by @ysabel.bsky.social on the platform paradox which rejects the simplistic binary safe/unsafe framing of youth social media use. A powerful antidote to the polemic pop-psych airport book discourse. A great summary by @snurb.info over here: snurb.info/node/3260

Go @ysabel.bsky.social! Sounds like a truly excellent keynote at #AANZCA24, I'm sorry to have missed it, but having read the book, I know it would have been outstanding! Get yourself a copy of _The Kids Are Online_ the second it comes out: www.ucpress.edu/books/the-ki...

Great #AANZCA24 session on the Voice to Parliament referendum, Indigenous truth-telling, and Indigenous data sovereignty, including a paper by my @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleague @kathaesa.bsky.social. Liveblog here: snurb.info/taxonomy/...

Thank you so much again to the #AANZCA24 organisers for the kind invitation to be one of the conference keynotes, and to the audience for their attention and great questions + feedback 🫶🏼

Next up at #aanzca24 @snurb.info presenting our paper on the News Media Bargaining Code and Facebook's Australian news ban. We've used the Facebook URL Shares dataset to analyse this moment here and (attempted to) analyse what also has happened in Canada who copied our policy.

Started the second day of #aanzca24 with an informative keynote: a walk alongside the Birrarung with Dr N’arwee’t Carolyn Briggs. #Kulinnation

And really enjoyed my panel yesterday, presenting research from my colleague Guangnan Zhu (Rio) and me, about logo detection and organised climate denial, in a vibrant session that included these legends @svegaard.bsky.social and @vilkins.bsky.social at #aanzca

And we are off to a wonderful start with a keynote by Pablo Boczkowski on the underrepresention of poverty in Democrats #aanzca24

This will be of interest to #AANZCA24 participants:

Sean Redmond gives a beautiful paper on "Where is your loneliness room?", powerful ethnography that challenges the pathologisation of loneliness and instead reveals how quiet spaces allow us chances to reflect and situate in our thoughts. #aanzca24 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526161444/

Oh hai, #AANZCA24 – I’ll be presenting on our new #PracticeMapping methodology in the next session, so see you all in, um, Green Brain 1. 🧠🕸️🤖