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Amanda Lawrence

@amanda-lawrence.bsky.social
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Director of the Australian Internet Observatory at RMIT University and ADM+S

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Steve Jankowski @textaural.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
I am pleased to announce the launch of the Manifesto for Wikimedia Research manifesto.wiki. As my co-authored Big Data & Society commentary explains, the manifesto is dedicated to a humanist and critical tradition of taking Wikipedia's importance seriously. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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A manifesto for Wikimedia research: Critically studying Wikimedia as infrastructure
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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 27/02/2025
🗳️ As we creep towards #ausvotes 2025, my @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleague @vilkins.bsky.social and I took stock of critical scrutiny options for social media campaigning, and the picture is sobering. Australian politicians must do more to demand social media data access. 360info.org/how-digi...
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How digital giants let poll scrutiny fall - 360
The changing social media world, already hostile to oversight, is making monitoring election activity even more difficult. Yet policymakers still have options. A seismic change in the social media landscape — described by one industry insider as a ‘Cambrian explosion’ in digital options — poses fundamental challenges to those who would monitor the digital world. […]
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