I’m about to head back to Australia after a month of travel in Europe (mainly in Germany), where my colleagues and I have engaged in a range of workshops and conferences with our various research partners. Here’s an overview of the major presentations during that time.

In Bristol, I was an invited speaker at the first workshop of a new network of researchers exploring digital methods, and presented our work in the Mapping Online Publics [6] project:

Axel Bruns. "Mapping Online Publics: Understanding the Role of Twitter in Public Communication. [7]" Invited plenary paper presented at the first NCRM Digital Methods as Mainstream Methodology workshop, University of the West of England, Bristol, 9 July 2012.

From there I travelled to Munich, to participate in a workshop on methodological innovation in Internet research at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität:

Axel Bruns. "Towards a Comprehensive Picture of the Australian Twittersphere. [8]" Plenary paper presented at the workshop Methodeninnovationen in der Internetforschung, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, 12 July 2012.

And finally, after a range of internal workshops, my colleague Jean Burgess and I presented our Twitter research work at the Conference on Science and the Internet, organised by our ATN-DAAD project partners at the University of Düsseldorf:

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. "Notes towards the Scientific Study of Public Communication on Twitter. [9]" Keynote presented at the Conference on Science and the Internet, Düsseldorf, 4 Aug. 2012.

(And there’s a full paper [10] available for this keynote as well.)

Next up, a long flight home to Brisbane!