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6 things to ask yourself before you share a bushfire map on social media

By understanding how bushfire maps are created, and what their features represent, you can get better at spotting fake ones.

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The election collection: tracking trends on Twitter

With over 500 million tweets flying around the Twitterverse every day – ranging from the excruciatingly banal to the discerning and insightful – this micro-blogging platform can provide an immediate and detailed insight into public sentiment and community conversations. It is this vast amount of shared information that makes Twitter a treasure trove of data...

Summer time and the living ain’t always easy

By Carrie Bengston Our TV screens showed us the devastation caused in the US by Hurricane Sandy but what natural disasters might we face in Australia this summer? What ‘terrors’ will our ‘wide, brown land’ dish up? In summer 2010-11 it was the Queensland floods – a flash flood in Toowoomba, submerged Brisbane streets, and...

Where there’s tweets there’s fire

By Arwen Cross and Carrie Bengston LOL cats and celebrities might be our favourite things to talk about on twitter, but would you tweet in an emergency? Some people certainly do. Over in New Zealand the #eqnz hashtag has its finger on Christchurch’s seismic pulse. We’ve created software tools to analyse Twitter posts and look...

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Mars pics from Curiosity

Just wanted to share these amazing pictures from the Curiosity mission. For more news and the latest from Mars go to the NASA site HERE. The CSIRO-managed Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) was one of three tracking stations in NASA’s Deep Space Network to keep track of Curiosity and captured the first signals from the...

Houston, we have a check in: Space 2.0

(This article first appeared in The Conversation.) Social media is the new frontier for space exploration, shaping an age of innovative public participation in space missions. While online communities are a-Twitter about NBC’s poor Olympic coverage, there’s also excitement for a broadcast of a different nature. This week we learned that NASA’s latest and greatest Mars...

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