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Public lecture: 'Are Filter Bubbles Real?' - Wednesday 22 May
From: Elise Blight
Valid from: Thursday 4 April 2019 to Thursday 2 May 2019
You are invited to attend the upcoming public lecture, 'Are Filter Bubbles Real?', presented by Professor Axel Bruns (QUT). Please see below and the attached flyer for more information.
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Date: Wednesday 22 May
Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm
Venue: EA.1.31, Parramatta South campus
The success of political movements that appear to be immune to any factual evidence that contradicts their claims – from the Brexiteers to the ‘alt-right’, neo-fascist groups supporting Donald Trump – has reinvigorated claims that social media spaces constitute so-called ‘filter bubbles’ or ‘echo chambers’.
This talk explores the evidence for and against echo chambers and filter bubbles. It moves the present debate beyond a merely anecdotal footing, and offers a more reliable assessment of this purported threat.
Professor Axel Bruns biography
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Professor Axel Bruns is a Professor in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane. He is the author of Are Filter Bubbles Real? (forthcoming 2019), Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere (2018), Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage (2008), and Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (2005), and a co-editor of Digitizing Democracy (2019), the Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics (2016), Twitter and Society (2014), A Companion to New Media Dynamics (2012), and Uses of Blogs (2006). His current work focusses on the study of user participation in social media spaces such as Twitter, and its implications for our understanding of the contemporary public sphere, drawing especially on innovative new methods for analysing 'big social data'. His research blog is at http://snurb.info/ and he tweets at @snurb_dot_info. He currently serves as President of the Association of Internet Researchers.
This lecture is jointly funded by the Institute for Culture and Society’s Digital Life Research Program and the Digital Humanities Research Group.
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