#Social media

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

Mars pics from Curiosity

Just wanted to share these amazing pictures from the Curiosity mission. For more news and the latest from Mars go […]

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 […]