Understanding Intermedia Information Flows in the Australian Online Public Sphere

新媒体形式的出现导致澳大利亚媒体环境发生了深刻的转变;主流媒体、小众媒体和社交媒体在线上和线下以多种方式交叉。增加对在线公共传播大规模数据的访问，可以观察国家如何回应当天的新闻，主题和主题如何展开，以及感兴趣的公众如何随着时间的推移而发展和衰落。该项目利用这些观察来追踪信息如何在媒体空间中流动，并开发一种新的在线公共领域模型。它为数字人文学科的研究方法创新做出了重大贡献，并为旨在缩小数字和社会鸿沟的政策提供了重要基础。

The emergence of new media forms has led to a profound transformation of the Australian media environment; mainstream, niche, and social media intersect in many ways, online and offline. Increased access to large-scale data on public communication online enables an observation of how the nation responds to the news of the day, how themes and topics unfold, and how interested publics develop and decline over time. This project uses such observations to trace how information flows across media spaces, and to develop a new model of the online public sphere. It makes significant contributions to innovation in research methods in the digital humanities, and provides an important basis for policies aimed at closing digital and social divides.