Our report titled “Resourcing, technology and audiences: an industry-led agenda for journalism practice and research” is out: apo.org.au/node/332662 @tjthomson.bsky.social @jammh.bsky.social @dbossio.bsky.social @eddyhurc.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au @rmitcomputing.bsky.social

📧 If you're in Melbourne and would like to attend the launch event, please send an email to NTSNetwork@rmit.edu.au. @jammh.bsky.social @dbossio.bsky.social @eddyhurc.bsky.social

🤓 Researchers @dbossio.bsky.social and @eddyhurc.bsky.social hosted an interactive workshop with participants from across Australia's sporting industries to discuss the challenges modern sports organisations face in trying to find and keep viewers in an era of audience fragmentation.

🏏 Our NTS Network was invited to take part in #AustralianSportsInnovation week last week by holding an industry workshop and attending the Content Live Industry show. Our Network co-presented "Understanding Australian Screen and Sport Audiences" with another RMIT EIP Network.

Check out this new report “Communicating to CALD Communities about energy: Best practice engagement to connect with digitally excluded groups”. Authored by 3C's Leah Li, David Micallef, @dbossio.bsky.social & @lukasteo.bsky.social Funded by AusNet communityhub.ausnetservices.com.au/HOME-Grant/r...

RMIT University | AusNet's Helping Our Mission for Equity Grant

Exploring how Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) communities navigate the energy transition in Victoria.

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Come and join our research network - reading group, grant proposal support, visiting scholars and industry events to come!

News, Technology, and Society Network@ntsnetwork.bsky.social · 12mo ago

📆 Our next reading group is on 3 September. If you have suggestions for future readings or are Melbourne-based and would like to join, please send an email to ntsnetwork@rmit.edu.au. @sethclewis.bsky.social @tomasdodds.bsky.social @rodzam.bsky.social

🔗 Register here to attend the launch and receive a copy of the report: events.humanitix.com/engaged-jour... @skpark.bsky.social

Report launch: Engaged Journalism in the Heartland - Understanding Regional News Audiences

Register on Humanitix - Report launch: Engaged Journalism in the Heartland - Understanding Regional News Audiences hosted by News and Media Research Centre . Online. Wednesday 27th August 2025. Find e...

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🤔 What do news audiences want from local news? 📰 What do they think is poorly covered or missing? 📝 How involved are news audiences in the production and dissemination of local news? Our new report addresses these and other pressing questions for those living in regional parts of the country.

I reached a satisfying milestone today: 1 million reads of my 24 career-to-date articles published in @theconversation.com. I genuinely enjoy translating research for public benefit through these pieces and look forward to hopefully continuing to do so for many years into the future.

📣 We're happy to announce that the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies will be hosting the 5th ECREA Journalism Studies section conference in Groningen, The Netherlands, on April 9th-10th, 2026! Join us and submit your abstract before August 22nd. Find the CfP here: www.rug.nl/research/ico...

If you've ever wondered what the news market looks like on Facebook, here is my latest article on Australian news diversity on Facebook, published in MIA. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Australian news diversity on Facebook: An empirical study using engagement metrics and concentration analysis - Cameron McTernan, 2025

News diversity has long been a critical issue in Australia, but current research overlooks the significant share of content that is consumed via social media. F...

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Check out the latest edition of @Social Sciences for an article by 3C’s @dbossio.bsky.social with Andrea Carson (La Trobe University): “Who Really Leads? A Qualitative Exploration of Gender Equity in Leadership of Australian Newsrooms” doi.org/10.3390/socs... #journalism #genderequity

🌟 New Release Alert! Volume 195, Number 1 — May 2025 of MIA is here! Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/miad/195... #MIAjournal #MediaInternationalAustralia #EnvironmentalCommunication #ClimateAction #EnergyJustice #MediaDiversity #IndigenousVoices #JournalismStudies #NewRelease

✨ New article out in Social Media + Society on "The Quality of Connections" ✨ or how reciprocity & #listening can counter destructive #polarisation dynamics online 🧠 Read here (open access 🔓): journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The Quality of Connections: Deliberative Reciprocity and Inclusive Listening as Antidote to Destructive Polarization Online - Katharina Esau, 2025

Conflict and disagreement are integral to healthy democracies, but the extreme polarization observed on many social media platforms poses a serious risk to the ...

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Three years ago, I wrote this rapid ramble of a blog, "The kids are not ok", following my experience of a failed climate lecture. It remains the most read piece I have ever written. I just looked at it again: I can see why. It's ... just honest. jksteinberger.medium.com/the-kids-are...

The kids are not ok

Today I went to give a climate talk at my old high school in Geneva — and was given a masterclass in our failings. This is the story of a…

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With fact-checkers being replaced by Community Notes on platforms, our cross-country comparative study on individual news authentication/verification published on IJPP offers some key insights. Check it out 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... with @winsonpeng2011.bsky.social & Xinzhi Zhang

How Do Individual and Societal Factors Shape News Authentication? Comparing Misinformation Resilience Across Hong Kong, the Netherlands, and the United States - Qinfeng Zhu, Tai-Quan Peng, Xinzhi Zhan...

In an era of pervasive misinformation, equipping citizens to counter its spread is increasingly critical. This study examines news authentication—individuals’ p...

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Examining journalists' collective disconnection, @dbossio.bsky.social, @journoscholar.bsky.social Avery Holton @loganex.bsky.social show how experience sharing & internal training drive systemic change to protect journalists' well-being from the organizational demand for connectivity bit.ly/3WQCskv

From Individual Disconnection to Collective Practices for Journalists’ Wellbeing | Article | Media and Communication

Diana Bossio, Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, Avery E. Holton, Logan Molyneux

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Here’s an interesting study from colleagues at Monash on social media and civic values: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...

Australians who get most of their news from social media more likely to believe in climate conspiracy, study finds

Exclusive: Monash University study suggests those who rely more on newspapers and public broadcasters more likely to score highly on ‘civic values’

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Very, very timely: our brilliant @qutdmrc.bsky.social podcast team has covered #Meta's phasing out of #factchecking (in the US, "for now") in the first #ReadThemSideways episode for 2025:

Kate FitzGerald@katemfitzgerald.bsky.social · 2y ago

The Read Them Sideways podcast is back from our summer hiatus! @phzerosounds.bsky.social, our editor, has stepped up to host this week. Stephen speaks with @nedwatt.bsky.social and @riedlinm.bsky.social about the changes to Meta's fact checking program. open.spotify.com/episode/6tg3...

Inman-Grant is far from perfect, and often waaaaay too reluctant to call bullshit bullshit, but hidden in here is a valuable deconstruction of Australia's manufactured moral panic over 🫨 teh kids on teh social medias 🫨. 👇👇👇

Don't get me wrong. A tax on Big Tech to support journalism is a solid idea, but this "negotiate or else" setup is broken. It shouldn’t be a backstop for failed deals; it should be the system! A transparent, fair tax with clear quality benchmarks would serve the public far better than backroom deals

This is quite a clever incentive in that it is *less expensive* for platforms if they do make deals with media outlets. In other words, it was basically written for Meta, who have walked away from the bargaining table www.news.com.au/technology/o...

I was given about 35 seconds to write a quick update for The Conversation on the news media bargaining code and what is essentially the Albanese govt trying to force Meta back to the bargaining table with a a fully offset levy. You can read about it here: theconversation.com/news-bargain...

News bargaining incentive: the latest move in the government’s ‘four-dimensional chess’ battle with Meta

The government has been playing ‘four-dimensional chess’ to work out how to drag big tech back to the bargaining table with news publishers. So, will this new scheme work?

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I keep trying to write something eloquent and just being tired. History matters. Philosophy matters. Languages and literature matter. Indigenous studies matter. Arts and humanities and social sciences matter. All of them. Signed, a physicist

As “under 16” is being encoded into social media policy as “childhood”, take a look at the Australian children serving your takeaway and packing your groceries. They’re being paid 36.8% of the adult minimum wage, and very big businesses depend on them. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Grill’d was able to pay Arda $3 less than minimum wage. Unions want this youth ‘loophole’ abolished

Advocates argue it’s time for young people’s wages to rise but business groups claim paying more will push some companies into insolvency

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Completely ideological and will be utterly devastating.

Lisa M Given, FASSA, FASIS&T@lisagiven.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is devastating: “the Fund will shift to core science, with the humanities and social sciences panels disbanded and no longer supported. Real impact on our economy will come from areas such as physics, chemistry, maths, engineering and biomedical sciences.” www.beehive.govt.nz/release/mars...

Such a good #AANZCA conference at RMIT!! Thank you to @dbossio.bsky.social @jammh.bsky.social @dhutchman.bsky.social for organising and @katemannell.bsky.social your #digitalchild research. Stoked to share my early research on ADHD and screen time

Ok that was *brilliant*. I think we could’ve easily continued the Q&A for another hour :) The four speakers presented in a lifecourse order, and we covered mothers’ smartphone use, the datafication of parenting, screen time, and pornography. I learned so much, both as a scholar and as a 🤰🏻 person.

Very excited to be at the Digital Parenting #AANZCA24 panel this morning! A stellar line-up of exciting papers coming out of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child 🇦🇺

I feel so proud to announce that my first book - The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life - will be published in March 2025, by @ucpress.bsky.social 🫶🏼