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Axel Bruns
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Australian Laureate Fellow and Professor at @qutdmrc, researching news, politics, partisanship, polarisation in digital and social media.

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This caused a brain itch I had to scratch
January 12, 2026 at 7:48 AM
And then there are a few new encyclopaedia entries and an article in Italian about destructive polarisation (soon also to come out in English). More about those in the blog post: snurb.info/node/3532.
January 11, 2026 at 11:32 PM
With colleagues in Hamburg and Bremen, we also examined how Australian and German media cover mainstream and fringe climate protests. There are some clear but different divergences here too (original presentation here: snurb.info/node/3048).
January 11, 2026 at 11:32 PM
My colleague Katharina Esau led our analysis of media polarisation in Australia during the Voice to Parliament referendum, where we found some complex and diverging patterns (original presentation here: snurb.info/node/3297).
January 11, 2026 at 11:32 PM
With Simon Copland and Timothy Graham, I analysed the dissemination of Sky News Australia videos on Facebook, and found three distinct but overlapping audiences, in Australia and overseas (original presentation here: snurb.info/node/2626).
January 11, 2026 at 11:32 PM