Abstract
Many Australians access news by following news outlets through social media. The interactive affordances of social media platforms enable users to also create, cocreate, and distribute information. The project examines how news and information are circulated, and how this is changing the news ecosystem in Australia. We investigate how Facebook users respond to different types of information. We examine what types of news and information are widely shared and how they are framed by those who share the information.The project has three aims: to identify distinct temporalities between categories of news and non-news platforms; to analyse differences in interactions with news and non-news URLs and domains; and to investigate polarisation in news and its implications for sharing practices.
Principal Investigator
Sora Park
Associate Professor, University of Canberra
Participants
Caroline Fisher
Assistant Professor, University of Canberra
Glen Fuller
Associate Professor, University of Canberra
Michael J. Jensen
Associate Professor, University of Canberra
Jee Young Lee
Lecturer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Canberra
Yoonmo Sang
Senior Lecturer, University of Canberra