Read Them Sideways

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Read Them Sideways

Read Them Sideways is the podcast produced by the Digital Media Research Centre at the Queensland University of Technology. Your hosts Sam, Sebastian, and Kate chat with academics from around the world about issues that relate to communications, digital media, internet studies, and much more!

  1. 4 NOV

    Episode 13: Researching climate change scepticism with Caroline Gardam

    In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Kate FitzGerald speaks with Caroline Gardam, a PhD student in the Digital Media Research Centre. They discuss Caroline's PhD project, which looks at climate change scepticism and chemtrail conspiracy theories on the the platform Instagram. Read Them Sideways is a podcast series from the Digital Media Research Centre, bringing our researchers to the spotlight to discuss issues that relate to communications, digital media, internet studies, and much more.

    27 min

  2. 16 OCT

    Episode 12: United States politics and dark political communication with Stephen Harrington

    In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Kate FitzGerald sat down with Stephen Harrington, an Associate Professor at the Digital Media Research Centre. They discussed Stephen's recent Discovery Research Project grant from the Australian Research Council, which works to define and investigate dark political communication. They also chatted about US politics generally, the upcoming US election, and elements of dark political communication that are imported to Australian politics. Read Them Sideways is a podcast series from the Digital Media Research Centre, bringing our researchers to the spotlight to discuss issues that relate to communications, digital media, internet studies, and much more.

    37 min

  3. 8 OCT

    Episode 11: Conspiracy theories on Danish Twitter with Frederik Grønbæk Aarup

    In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Sebastian Svegaard speaks with Frederik Grønbæk Aarup, a visiting PhD student at the Digital Media Research Centre. They discuss Frederik's PhD project, which considers conspiracy theories in Denmark on Twitter. Read Them Sideways is a podcast series from the Digital Media Research Centre, bringing our researchers to the spotlight to discuss issues that relate to communications, digital media, internet studies, and much more.

    29 min

  4. 30 SEPT

    Episode 10: The closure of X in Brazil with Tariq Choucair and Vinicius Ferraz

    In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Kate FitzGerald speaks with Tariq Choucair, a postdoctoral researcher at the the Digital Media Research Centre. This week is a double header, and Kate also had the opportunity to talk with Vinicius Ferraz, a visiting PhD candidate from Brazil. In this episode, we discussed the closure of X in Brazil, the context of this decision, and what this means for digital platforms and politics. Read Them Sideways is a podcast series from the Digital Media Research Centre, bringing our researchers to the spotlight to discuss issues that relate to communications, digital media, internet studies, and much more.

    51 min

  5. 23 SEPT

    Episode 9: Challenging climate change denial with John Cook

    In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Sam Vilkins chats with John Cook, a Senior Research Fellow at the Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change at the University of Melbourne and visitor to the Digital Media Research Centre. They discuss John's work on challenging climate change denial and countering misinformation more broadly. Read Them Sideways is a new podcast series from the Digital Media Research Centre, bringing our researchers to the spotlight to discuss issues that relate to communications, digital media, internet studies, and much more.

    32 min

  6. 16 SEPT

    Episode 8: Science-related populism with Niels Mede

    In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Sebastian Svegaard speaks with Niels G. Mede, visiting scholar and Senior Research and Teaching Associate at the Department of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich. Sebastian and Niels discuss his research into measuring science-related populism around the globe, and the challenges of running such large interdisciplinary and international projects. Read Them Sideways is a new podcast series from the Digital Media Research Centre, bringing our researchers to the spotlight to discuss issues that relate to communications, digital media, internet studies, and much more.

    29 min

  7. 8 SEPT

    Episode 7: The Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society Mini Series # 2 with Axel Bruns

    In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Kate FitzGerald chats with Professor Axel Bruns, the leader of the Digital Publics research group at the Digital Media Research Centre. Recently, the DMRC responded to the Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society. In this mini series, we will be chatting with scholars who contributed to the extensive DMRC submission. In part two, Axel discusses the National Media Bargaining Code, the consequences for the Australian news media industry, and what alternatives might be available. Read Them Sideways is a new podcast from the Digital Media Research Centre, bringing our researchers to the spotlight to discuss issues that relate to communications, digital media, internet studies, and much more.

    25 min

  8. 2 SEPT

    Episode 6: Creating a better children’s internet with Aleesha Rodriguez

    In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Sam Vilkins chats with Dr Aleesha Rodriguez, a research fellow at QUT. They work within the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child and research the often-overlooked demographic of children aged from birth to eight and their experiences on the internet. Read Them Sideways is a new podcast series from the Digital Media Research Centre, bringing our researchers to the spotlight to discuss issues that relate to communications, digital media, internet studies, and much more.

    34 min
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Read Them Sideways is the podcast produced by the Digital Media Research Centre at the Queensland University of Technology. Your hosts Sam, Sebastian, and Kate chat with academics from around the world about issues that relate to communications, digital media, internet studies, and much more!

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