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D-Index
73
Citations
28264
World Ranking
622
National Ranking
42

Overview

Axel Bruns is affiliated with the Queensland University of Technology in Australia and has an extensive publication record in the social sciences, primarily focused on communication and media studies. Their work bridges various subfields such as communication, sociology and political science, artificial intelligence, statistical and nonlinear physics, and gender studies.

The scientist's research topics predominantly cover social media and politics, media studies and communication, misinformation and its impacts, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, gender, feminism, and media, opinion dynamics and social influence, as well as discourse analysis in language studies.

Frequent co-authors include Daniel Angus, Edward Hurcombe, Ehsan Dehghan, Laura Vodden, and Katharina Esau, with collaboration counts ranging from seven to thirteen joint publications.

Axel Bruns has published extensively in various academic venues. The most frequent publication outlets include:

  • AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research
  • Media International Australia
  • Social Media + Society
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Information Communication & Society

Selected recent papers illustrate the focus and scope of their work:

  • 'Corona? 5G? or both?': the dynamics of COVID-19/5G conspiracy theories on Facebook, 2020, Media International Australia
  • From "the" public sphere to a network of publics: towards an empirically founded model of contemporary public communication spaces, 2023, Communication Theory
  • Covering Conspiracy: Approaches to Reporting the COVID/5G Conspiracy Theory, 2021, Digital Journalism

These publications indicate a concern with public communication dynamics, misinformation, and the representation of conspiracy theories in digital media environments.

Best Publications

  • Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage

    Axel Bruns

  • Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production

    Axel Bruns

  • The use of Twitter hashtags in the formation of ad hoc publics

    Axel Bruns;Jean E. Burgess

  • Towards Produsage: Futures for User-Led Content Production

    Axel Bruns

  • PREPARING FOR AN AGE OF PARTICIPATORY NEWS

    Mark Deuze;Axel Bruns;Christoph Neuberger

  • The Use of Blogs, Wikis and RSS in Education: A Conversation of Possibilities

    Peter D. Duffy;Axel Bruns

  • More than a backchannel: Twitter and television

    Stephen Harrington;Tim Highfield;Axel Bruns

  • RESEARCHING NEWS DISCUSSION ON TWITTER: New methodologies

    Axel Bruns;Jean Burgess

  • The Arab Spring and Social Media Audiences English and Arabic Twitter Users and Their Networks

    Axel Bruns;Tim Highfield;Jean Burgess

  • Towards more systematic Twitter analysis: metrics for tweeting activities

    Axel Bruns;Stefan Stieglitz

  • TWITTER AS A TECHNOLOGY FOR AUDIENCING AND FANDOM: The #Eurovision phenomenon

    Tim Highfield;Stephen Harrington;Axel Bruns

  • Wikis in teaching and assessment: the M/Cyclopedia project

    Axel Bruns;Sal Humphreys

  • Gatewatching, Not Gatekeeping: Collaborative Online News:

    Axel Bruns

  • The Arab Spring and Its Social Media Audiences: English and Arabic Twitter Users and Their Networks

    Axel Bruns;Tim Highfield;Jean Burgess

  • Mobile Learning in Review: Opportunities and Challenges for Learners, Teachers and Institutions

    Rachel S. Cobcroft;Stephen J. Towers;Judith E. Smith;Axel Bruns

  • #qldfloods and @QPSMedia: Crisis communication on Twitter in the 2011 South East Queensland floods - Research Report

    Axel Bruns;Jean Burgess;Kate Crawford;Frances Shaw

  • #qldfloods and @QPSMedia: Crisis Communication on Twitter in the 2011 South East Queensland Floods

    Axel Bruns;Jean Burgess

  • Quantitative Approaches to Comparing Communication Patterns on Twitter

    Axel Bruns;Stefan Stieglitz

  • The Future Is User-Led: The Path towards Widespread Produsage

    Axel Bruns

  • Social Media Analytics

    Stefan Stieglitz;Linh Dang-Xuan;Axel Bruns;Christoph Neuberger

  • Are Filter Bubbles Real

    Axel Bruns

  • The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics

    Axel Bruns;Gunn Sara Enli;Eli Skogerbo;Anders Olof Larsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean Burgess
Jean Burgess Queensland University of Technology
Kate Crawford
Kate Crawford Microsoft (United States)
Stuart Cunningham
Stuart Cunningham Queensland University of Technology
Mark Deuze
Mark Deuze University of Amsterdam
Folker Hanusch
Folker Hanusch University of Vienna
Larissa Hjorth
Larissa Hjorth RMIT University

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