Submission

ADM+S Submission to The Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society

Jake Goldenfein, Timothy Graham, Lauren Hayden, Ariadna Matamoros Fernandez, Silvia Montaña-Niño, Christopher O’Neill, Christine Parker, Zahra Stardust, Nic Suzor, Kimberlee Weatherall


This submission considers some important and complex questions around the role of social media in Australian society by a large group of researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S).
Working paper

Measuring intermediary news diversity: Google News in Australia


This paper presents results from a sub-project established under the banner of the ADM+S Australian Search Experience ‘citizen science’ research project. The aim was to understand what sort of news is presented to Australians through Google News.
Working paper

Australian search experience project: background paper


This background paper outlines the motivations and context for a study that takes a citizen science approach to investigating the recommendations made by leading search engines for a wide range of search topics.
Report

Like a virus: the coordinated spread of coronavirus disinformation


This research has identified coordinated networks of Pro-Trump and QAnon social media clusters at the centre of coordinated efforts to disseminate disinformation about COVID-19, particularly the conspiracy theory that China engineered the virus as a bioweapon.
Journal article

Political journalists and their social media audiences: new power relations

This article pursues a cross-national comparison of interactions between political journalists and their audiences on Twitter in Germany and Australia, documenting how the differences in the status of Twitter in each country’s media environment manifest in activities and network interactions.

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