ZeMKI 2025 | Snurblog — Axel Bruns 20th anniversary conference of the Zentrum für Medien-, Kommunikations- und Informationsforschung, Bremen, 23-24 Oct. 2025.

And here’s my liveblog of our #ZeMKI2025 session on polarisation, which also features my paper on our #practicemapping approach:

Diagnosing Destructive Polarisation in Public Discourse: The Practice Mapping Framework Axel Bruns, Katharina Esau, Kateryna Kasianenko, Tariq Choucair, Vish Padinjaredath Suresh Digital Media Research Centre Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia

And I’m presenting in the next session at the #ZeMKI2025 conference, at the Haus der Wissenschaften, with a paper on our new #practicemapping method and its use in diagnosing destructive polarisation.

Slides are here: snurb.info/node/3462

Title slide: Detecting the Symptoms of Destructive Polarisation: The Practice Mapping Approach Axel Bruns Australian Laureate Fellow Digital Media Research Centre Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia a.bruns@qut.edu.au Bluesky: @snurb.info | Mastodon:@snurb@aoir.social with important contributions from: Laura Vodden Katharina Esau Tariq Choucair Samantha Vilkins Laura Lefevre Vishnu PS Ehsan Dehghan Kateryna Kasianenko

About to start the second day of the #BotsBuildingBridges workshop in Bielefeld, where I’ll present our new #practicemapping approach as a method for studying destructive polarisation. Slides are up, and more detail in our recent article in Social Media + Society too.

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Much of this is continuing our efforts at the @qutdmrc.bsky.social to build out the #practicemapping methodology, covered in a first article with @kkasianenko.bsky.social, @vishneww.bsky.social, @essideh.com, and @voddenlaura.bsky.social in Social Media + Society recently:

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Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks - Axel Bruns, Kateryna Kasianenko, Vish Padinjaredath Suresh, Ehsan Dehghan, Laura Vod... This article introduces the analytical approach of practice mapping, using vector embeddings of network actions and interactions to map commonalities and disjun...

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My article with @qutdmrc.bsky.social colleagues @kkasianenko.bsky.social, @vishneww.bsky.social, @essideh.com, and @voddenlaura.bsky.social is now out in Social Media + Society.

We introduce a new analytics method: #PracticeMapping.

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Cover slide of “ Beyond Interaction Networks: An Introduction to Practice Mapping”, by Axel Bruns.

Aaaand after the morning tea break at #ACSPRI24 was my closing keynote, presenting our new #PracticeMapping method for the study of multimodal networks.

Slides are up here: snurb.info/node/3291

Bit of a wild mix of papers in the final #AANZCA24 session for the day, including my own presentation on our new #PracticeMapping approach, but we had a great discussion nonetheless. Liveblog (including my presentation slides) here:
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Title slide of “ Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks”, by Axel Bruns, Kateryna Kasianenko, Vishnuprasad Padinjaredath Suresh, Ehsan Dehghan, Laura Vodden.

Oh hai, #AANZCA24 – I’ll be presenting on our new #PracticeMapping methodology in the next session, so see you all in, um, Green Brain 1. 🧠🕸️🤖