As 2010 draws to a close, its perhaps appropriate that my last couple of conference presentations for the year take a somewhat retrospective nature, summarising and reflecting on the 2010 Australian federal election, with a particular view on what we’ve learned about the state of Australian journalism in general and the role of Twitter in election coverage and debate in particular. I’ll present both those papers at different conferences in Sydney this Friday (26 November):

• At the Journalism Education Association conference [11] at the University of Technology Sydney, I’m presenting a somewhat polemical plenary, “The Blogification of Australian Journalism? Notes from the Election [12]”, in the morning (and there’s a full paper to go with the presentation, too [13]);
• at the International Australian Studies Association ‘Double Vision’ conference [14] at the University of Sydney, in the afternoon, I’m presenting “Election 2010: The View from Twitter [15]”, a ‘best of’ from our detailed examination of the #ausvotes Twitter hashtag as part of the Mapping Online Publics [16] ARC Discovery project.

Slides for both those presentations are below, and I’ll try and add audio later both with audio.

Additionally, I should also mention that a special issue of Social Science Computer Review, which I edited with Jean Burgess, Carol Soon and Han Woo Park, has now been published at least in its online version (with print to follow). Articles in the special issue are available on the journal site [17], and in particular the collection includes our “Mapping the Australian Networked Public Sphere [18]” (with Jean Burgess, Tim Highfield, Lars Kirchhoff, and Thomas Nicolai), which also provides some more background on the work I’ll present at InASA in the afternoon. All eight articles in the issue were drawn from two panels we organised for the International Communication Association conference in Singapore, in June.

Here are those slides – after that, it’s time for the summer holidays…