Presented at the "Doing Global Media Studies" preconference of ECREA 2010, 12 October 2010, Bremen. Project blog: http://mappingonlinepublics.net

1. Tracing publics in the Australian blogosphereNew methods for international communication research Axel Bruns Jean Burgess Queensland University of Technology Lars Kirchhoff Thomas Nicolai Sociomantic Labs http://mappingonlinepublics.net

3. Computer-assisted cultural analysis: tracking, mapping, analysing blogs, twitter, flickr, youtube as ‘networked publics’

4. Builds on previous work of the research team (UCC, YouTube, blogosphere mapping)

5. Advances beyond established approaches - beyond political blogospheres, beyond snapshots

8. topics of interest?

9. clusters and communities?

11. development of computer-assisted techniques for both broad and recursively focused analysis

12. identification of key events, clusters and communities

15. Analysis – Blogs

16. Bushfires Qld Election Budget New Sites Added Overall Patterns of Activity (Jan.-Aug. 2009)From previous work by Bruns et al

17. Blog Network (between known blogs only)(17 July to 27 August 2010 | 3.4 million links | Node size: Indegree | See: http://mappingonlinepublics.net/2010/09/22/mapping-the-australian-blogosphere-some-more/) parenting politics food arts & crafts design and style

18. Analysis – Twitter (Twapperkeeper #hashtag archives)

19. 9 #masterchef @reply network size: indegree colour: outdegree

20. 10 most-tweeted election videos

21. 11 #ausvotes election themes

22. 12 towards international and transcultural research re-emergence of ‘national’ frames (reterritorialisation; region-specific platform dominance; uptake beyond early adopters) both culturally-bound and transcultural ‘issue publics’ (within and beyond the nation-state) shared methodologies: possibilities for international comparative and/or collaborative work eghashtags that are of interest across national boundaries