...and then the world
Social Media and Everyday Politics
It’s my book, and it’s out now! Full information is available here, and please feel free to contact me about anything related to it — and if you like it, please review it and encourage people to take a look! If you order it from Wiley, you can get a 20% discount too — use the code PY720 when checking out.
Where can I buy the book?
It’s in actual bookstores! If you’re in Brisbane, you can find it at Avid Reader in West End — where, if you’re quick, there are even some signed copies (as at 15 August 2016), as seen in the image below! There are also unsigned copies in Dymocks in the Brisbane CBD (you’ll find it in the reference section!), and Riverbend Books also has a copy in its catalogue.
Meanwhile, in Perth there is a copy in Boffins in the city!
Sydney: Gleebooks has it in stock in their online catalogue (not sure about store(s)); Berkelouw in Paddington also has a copy, while Abbey’s has it in their catalogue too!
Melbourne: there is at least one copy in stock in three branches of Readings: Carlton, Hawthorn, and Malvern!
There may be other bookstores stocking it too — if you see it, let me know! And of course there are the online options of Amazon and Book Depository, as well as direct from Polity and Wiley.
Where in the world is Tim (2016 edition)?
March – June 2016: Los Angeles, CA — IPAM Culture Analytics long program participant (UCLA)
15-16 April 2016: New York, NY — Theorizing the Web conference
1 – 16 June 2016: Fukuoka, Japan (and elsewhere in Japan) — International Communication Association conference
8 July 2016: Oxford, UK — Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Programme
11-13 July 2016: London, UK — Social Media and Society conference
5-8 October 2016: Berlin, Germany — Association of Internet Researchers conference
10 October 2016: Sheffield, UK — Culture and Politics of Data Visualization symposium
8-9 December 2016: Brisbane, Australia — Automating the Everyday symposium (co-organiser)
14-17 December 2016: Sydney, Australia — Crossroads in Cultural Studies conference
Talks and media
Media from June 2016:
I was also interviewed about 10 hour videos by Abby Ohlheiser for The Washington Post article ‘The mesmerizing lost art of the 10-hour YouTube loop, 2011’s weirdest video trend‘
Writing from May 2016:
‘Waiving (hash)flags: Some thoughts on Twitter hashtag emoji’ on Medium
‘Covering the election beyond our memes: what role for visual politics and social media?’ on The Conversation
On 16 April I gave a talk at Theorizing the Web — “On (the) loop: The animated GIF and cultural logics of repetition”, which you can watch here (the full session is in this video, with all the great talks, and I am the last presenter starting at around 49’30):
Late last year, I gave an interview to CBC radio’s Spark program, on Twitter parody accounts and news value, which can be heard here!
Meanwhile, in November 2015 I contributed a piece on wordplay and social media memes to the ‘Festival of Memeology’ at Culture Digitally, organized by Jean Burgess and Ryan Milner and also featuring pieces from some awesome meme and digital culture scholars (including Kate Miltner, Whitney Phillips, and Limor Shifman, among others); my piece is here: ‘On Hashtaggery and Portmanteaugraphy: Memetic Wordplay as Social Media Practice‘; and the whole series is here.
Recent journal articles
Brand new for April 2016 is ‘Instagrammatics and digital methods: studying visual social media, from selfies and GIFs to memes and emoji’, from Tama Leaver and myself in a special Digital Methods issue of Communication Research and Practice, also featuring several colleagues from QUT’s Digital Media Research Centre; our article is here, and the full issue is here (email me if you have paywall issues and would like to see a preprint).
Published at the end of 2015, the article Sky Croeser and I wrote based on our Mapping Movements research into Greek activists and digital media came out in Fibreculture: ‘Harbouring dissent: Greek independent and social media and the antifascist movement’. It is open-access and available here!
Also open-access is my article examining Twitter humour, within the context of the Lance Armstrong doping scandal — this article, Tweeted joke lifespans and appropriated punch lines: Practices around topical humor on social media’, is in the International Journal of Communication and can be found here!
Recent book chapters
A few new books have come out in 2015 and early 2016 that feature co-authored pieces by myself and colleagues — full publication details and purchasing links are available here.
First, Sky Croeser and I have a Mapping Movements chapter in 2015’s Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data, edited by Ganaele Langlois, Joanna Redden, and Greg Elmer and published by Bloomsbury — it’s based on our paper at the Compromised Data? symposium in Toronto in 2013.
Also from 2015, Axel Bruns and I have a chapter (‘From News Blogs to News on Twitter: Gatewatching and Collaborative News Curation’) in Stephen Coleman and Deen Freelon’s edited collection Handbook of Digital Politics, from Edward Elgar.
Indeed, Axel and I have a few pieces out at the moment: we have an English-language piece on the 2012 US Presidential election and Twitter in the mostly-German collection Die US-Präsidentschaftswahl 2012: Analysen der Politik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, edited by Christoph Bieber and Klaus Kamps, and published by Springer (and based on research presented at re:publica in 2013).
Finally, in the new massive volume The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics (edited by Axel, Gunn Enli, Eli Skogerbø, Anders Olof Larsson, and Christian Christensen), we have two co-authored chapters, one on the public sphere and social media (‘Is Habermas on Twitter?’) and one synthesizing our extensive research into Australian elections and social media (‘Compulsory voting, encouraged tweeting?’).
