Australian researchers on Twitter - self-listing post.
I’ve been thinking that it might be handy to compile a list of Australian academics/researchers who are using Twitter. I’m trying to make a start with this post. If people could add themselves in the comments thread, giving their name, position and username, I’ll compile this information in a repost on this blog. I’ll start.
Dr Jason Wilson
Lecturer in Digital Communications, University of Wollongong
http://twitter.com/jason_a_w
The motivation for this has to do with putting everyone in touch with each other. The last few posts I’ve done have been about how I’m using Twitter as a teaching and learning tool. Many students are now signed up, and getting to grips with what the service is all about.
I’ve been telling them how many leaders in their field of study can be followed on Twitter, and how many interesting debates happen there, but I don’t think everyone is listed anywhere in one spot. I hope I can provide this for colleagues, students and others here at Gatewatching.
Christian McCrea
Lecturer in Games and Interactivity, Swinburne University of Technology
http://www.twitter.com/christianmccrea/
Mez Breeze
Synthetic Presence Strategist/Game Theorist
augmentology.com
http://twitter.com/netwurker
[...Re-posting Jason Wilson at Gatewatching: http://thememesofproduction.org/articles/australian-researchers-on-twitter ...]
Dr Tim Sherratt
Historian, web developer, National Archives of Australia
http://www.twitter.com/wragge
Television studies, in particularly, TV comedy, the mockumentary, as well as critical theory.
Central Queensland University
@wendyldavis
Dr Tama Leaver
Lecturer in Internet Studies, Curtin University of Technology
http://twitter.com/tamaleaver
Co-ordinate eResearch through Intersect;
Work on Digital Economy strategy through NICTA;
Semantic Web researcher - symbol grounding and controlled natural languages, W3C OWL Working Group.
http://twitter.com/barrysaunders
this and that. media, politics, policy, environment. Social media metrics, freedom of speech. Journamalism.
Elliott Bledsoe
Research Assistant, Creative Commons Clinic, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation
http://twitter.com/elliottbledsoe
Christy Dena
School of Letters, Art & Media, University of Sydney
Researching changes to entertainment, art & marketing in the context of ‘media proliferation’. Uses a transdisciplinary approach to develop methodologies that utilise narrative, game, art and media theory.
http://twitter.com/christydena
Studying online for Masters Degree in Internet Studies, Curtin University. Otherwise designer/editor of books and other printed matter, photographer and general layabout. Blog is at http://wildeel.com/wp.
Tv historian, interested in television art and anything to do with screen aesthetics. I teach at the University of Queensland.
http://twitter.com/JasonJJacobs
However… while I use twitter I use it for entirely personal reasons, it’s filtered and not public, and not to interact with “colleagues” (though some of my friends are colleagues) or to pursue “scholarship” (though some of the things I talk about with my friends are related to what I research and even sometimes part of my research. I could have just excluded myself by not replying, but I wanted to ask if this is a presumption you’re making here. I research and write about twitter but does that mean twitter needs to be tought of as a research tool by me because for me it’s not that straightforward at all.
Cheers,
Catherine
http://twitter.com/driscoll
@Catherine Driscoll
Hi Catherine
I suppose that’s what I was trying for by making it self-selecting - if you don’t want to be here, you don’t have to add yourself to the list. I wouldn’t dream of simply sticking up the people who I know are on there (many of whom haven’t chosen to add themselves here) because I know that people are on Twitter for all kinds of reasons.
Margaret Simons, Crikey media commentator, freelance journo and author, resaercher on journalism and new media, Institute of Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology.
@Jason
So “Are you an Australian researcher/academic on Twitter? Add yourself to the list I’m trying to compile http://is.gd/mlXI” should read “Are you an Australian researcher/academic using Twitter for research? Add yourself to the list I’m trying to compile http://is.gd/mlXI“?
I think what’s at stake in the difference made it worth replying although, as I said @ you on twitter, feel free to delete if my comment seemed snippy, it wasn’t meant to be.
http://twitter.com/jeanburgess
Jean Burgess, research fellow in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation, QUT.
Adrian Miles is a Senior Lecturer in New Media and Program Director of the labsome Honours research studio at RMIT, in Melbourne, Australia. Research in hypertext, network literacies, and online video.
http://twitter.com/katecrawford
Kate Crawford, Associate Professor in the Journalism and Media Research Centre, UNSW, in Sydney. Currently researching mobile media, affect and technologies of listening.
Angela Thomas is a senior lecturer at the University of Sydney researching multimedia authoring and the use of virtual worlds for innovative pedagogy, teaching new media literature and literacies.
http://twitter.com/anyaixchel
Julie Posetti is a lecturer in Journalism (broadcast) at the University of Canberra. She researches the reporting of race & culture (e.g. media coverage of Muslim women) public broadcasting; journalists & social media (especially Twitter); political reporting; talkback radio. A former ABC radio & TV journalist (national political reporter, social affairs etc), she continues to freelance & blog (http:www.j-scribe.com) Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/julie_posetti