For anyone interested in studying YouTube, the ever amazing Digital Observatory Team have released a new toolkit to collect YouTube video metadata and comments github.com/QUT-Digital-Ob…

Super research from a scholar to watch

For anyone interested in studying Telegram

🚨BREAKING🚨 Meta took down two covert influence ops: Big one from Russia🇷🇺 targeting Europe with spoofed media websites like the Guardian and Spiegel First one from China 🇨🇳 to focus on both sides of domestic US 🇺🇸 politics and Czech-China relations. about.fb.com/news/2022/09/r…

📣 All ECRs and PhDs, the QUT Digital Media Research Centre summer school has just been announced! Indicative dates are the 7-10th Feb so block out that week in your diary and be ready for the EOI round which will be out shortly. research.qut.edu.au/dmrc/research-…

This should be getting far more attention. Wikipedia is core knowledge infrastructure for the liberal democratic world order—this theatre of information warfare is a battle for reality

The first SICSS-Festival video is up! Be sure to check out Tim Graham 🌻 [email protected]'s workshop on studying online influence operations, with videos from other events coming soon!

Perspectives for Influence Operations Investigators carnegieendowment.org/2022/10/25/per… via Carnegie Endowment

As a wise man once said, QUT Digital Media Research Centre Summer School, it's the place to beeeee. you got to be there to know it

A growing body of research suggests human behavior on social media — coordinated activism, information cascades, harassment mobs — is strikingly similar to collective behavior seen in nature. | Renee DiResta in Noema Magazine noemamag.com/how-online-mob… via @

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something unpleasant after a period of relief.

Latest from me about Elon and misinformation on this doomed ship. Thanks @EllenCutch for the invitation to contribute to this piece abc.net.au/news/2022-11-1…

Hey Twitter! Here's a handy (and ironic) explainer on the safest way to leave Twitter as it seemingly gets run into the ground. Thanks Tim Graham 🌻 [email protected] Daniel Angus (he/him) @[email protected] ! theconversation.com/thinking-of-br… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Good news: Misinformation isn’t as powerful as feared! Bad news: Neither is information. nie.mn/3GRwaJH via Nieman Lab

2 million-person, campaign-wide field experiment shows how digital advertising affects voter turnout:”Our results indicate that differential mobilization effects of even large digital advertising campaigns in presidential elections are likely to be modest” nature.com/articles/s4156…

Word of the day is a reminder of ‘smellfungus’ (18th century): one who grumblingly finds fault in everyone and everything.

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 The Oxford Handbook of Digital Diplomacy is out now! 📚 34 chapters written by top experts in the field abt how digital technologies are transforming diplomacy 🚀 #DigitalDiplomacy #DiplomacyInTheDigitalAge amazon.co.uk/Oxford-Handboo…