🎙️It'll be a busy, early morning for me tomorrow:

* at 08:00 Brisbane time I'm speaking 'in' Brazil about the filtre bubble myth ()
* at 09:00 I'm talking about the NMBC in a roundtable 'in' Peru on digital platform regulation ()

Very very tempted if I'm perfectly honest. Anyone try this yet ?

I will never get enough of these glorious 3D models from the @nessofbrodgar dig site. View on a big screen if you can.

🇩🇪🗳️ Und ich sage nochmal: die #FDP ist der Blinddarm der deutschen Politik – keinerlei nützliche Funktion, aber immer wieder schmerzhaft für die Demokratie. Bei der kommenden Wahl dann bitte endgültig komplett entfernen. #BTW25

Hadn’t had a chance to watch this until now. Such a fabulously powerful protest against the NZ government’s flirtation with Trumpist racism. ✊✊✊

OK, WTH is up with @feedly at the moment ? Any articles I mark as read are just coming back as unread on the next refresh… 🙄

Ah yes, the famous corpse flower. It blooms only on those rare occasions when a democracy dies, you know. 🧐

Good gods, we got a goal at last. 😠 #ELVH96

WTAF ? #ELVH96

WTH. #ELVH96

(Maybe we could start playing some football now, @Hannover96 ? #ELVH96)

Oh good, some kind of sanity prevails. There was no way that was a penalty. #ELVH96

Right, so yet again both @Hannover96 matches are on at the same time… Hm. 🖤🤍💚 #ELVH96 #H96FCI

Very on brand for late 2024 though.

‼️ Two excellent PhD scholarship opportunities with the great @cbpuschmann at the wonderful @ZeMKI_Bremen in Bremen, Germany:

The moral panic over teen social media use is fundamentally unfounded, season 3 episode 9:

Sack literally everyone involved in this farce. We must not allow US-style misogynist politics to take root in Australia.

Die #FDP ist der Blinddarm der deutschen Politik. Wäre schön, jetzt endlich endgültig davon befreit zu werden.

Meanwhile, the German government is now officially in crisis. The only question I have is: what took you so long ? An incompetent, obstructionist, self-obsessed egomaniac like Lindner should have been sacked years ago. May we never hear of the #FDP again.

Still struggling for words, except these:

To all my friends in the US: much sympathy and love, and strength for the months and years to come. 💔

To everyone else: let’s renew the fight against fascism in all its forms wherever we see it rear its head in our own countries. ✊

Random balls of shit washing up on Sydney beaches seems like the perfect metaphor for the times we live in.

In the rush to get the last bus of the night I didn’t get to say goodbye to nearly enough #AoIR2024 friends – so from my brief change of planes in Dubai, thank you and safe travels all, and see you again in Rio ! 🫶

YES. Thanks for waiting with scoring those goals until I could tune in, @Hannover96. 🖤🤍💚 #H96KSC

Now that’s how you score from a penalty. Apparently. 😬 #H96KSC

Even the very last #AoIR2024 session was enormously stimulating - many thanks to my @qutdmrc colleague @t_choucair for putting it all together. Final liveblog here (and that makes it 12,000+ words all up):

Our morning panel at #AoIR2024 on partisanship and polarisation in news production, dissemination, and engagement was really exciting. I couldn't blog it since we were using my laptop, but here at least are the slides for three of the presentations:

(#AoIR2024 liveblog up to 11,000 words now, if you’re playing at home.)

Interesting discussion on ambient amplification (and ‘ampliganda’ 🤔) in the final #AoIR2024 panel today. And that’s the end of the liveblog for Day Two:

Interesting and very diverse session on social media and electoral politics at #AoIR2024, and nice to see our @qutdmrc research on destructive polarisation (led by @kathaesa) feature already, too. Liveblog here:

And in that context: my excellent @qutdmrc colleague @timothyjgraham has a new piece out in @ConversationEDU that brings the receipts on how Space Karen is now artificially boosting his own posts on Xitter. Should be of great interest to #AoIR2024.