My new co-authored book Everyday Data Cultures (with @KathAlbury, @Ant_McCosker, @endotician) is now officially out, and you can buy it here! politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo… One of the first major outputs from the @AdmsCentre's Data research program, conceived at an intensely fun and generative workshop in Melbourne in February 2020, it was written mostly alone in lockdown & via Friday Zoom meetings, in various affective states. It wasn't easy!

I know that the #qldfloods situation is far from over (and NSW is copping it now as well), and I am safe and dry in a non-flooded home, but I wanted to put down a few reflections on how the local media ecology functioned in the crisis period before I forget. Thread: First, the ABC is our national emergency broadcaster, and local radio (@abcbrisbane) did an amazing job as they always do - filling gaps in information, fielding phone calls, giving airtime to on-the-ground responders, and providing a sense of community.

It's taken me a while to figure out what I can even say to the requests for comment I am receiving from international media (because he was Australian, or because we're close-ish to New Zealand? who knows). Here's what I've just jotted down in an email to one (a thread): I have been studying social media platforms and especially YouTube and Twitter for most of their histories. Much of what we are seeing now is no surprise, but it could have been avoided.