Understanding Intermedia Information Flows in the Australian Online Public Sphere

新媒体形式的出现导致了澳大利亚媒体环境的深刻变革；主流媒体、利基媒体和社交媒体在很多方面都有交集，无论是线上还是线下。公众在线交流的大规模数据的增加，使人们能够观察到国家如何对当天的新闻作出反应，主题和话题如何展开，以及公众的兴趣如何随着时间的推移而发展和下降。本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要贡献，并为旨在弥合数字鸿沟和社会鸿沟的政策提供了重要依据。

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.