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Read Them Sideways

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Frequency: 1 episode/16d. Total Eps: 47

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

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14/08/2026
#93
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13/08/2026
#78
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11/08/2026
#49
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05/07/2025
#91
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04/07/2025
#75
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03/07/2025
#57
🇩🇪 Germany - socialSciences
02/07/2025
#41
🇬🇧 Great Britain - socialSciences
22/11/2024
#90
🇬🇧 Great Britain - socialSciences
21/11/2024
#58

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https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/global-sustainability/article/discourses-of-climate-delay/7B11B722E3E3454BB6212378E32985A7
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https://darioamodei.com/on-deepseek-and-export-controls
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https://iceds.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/anu-climate-update-2025-if-not-now-when
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Machine learning and simulation with Daniel Whelan-Shamy (#14)

Sunday, November 17, 2024 • Duration 23:40

In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Kate FitzGerald speaks with Daniel Whelan-Shamy, a PhD student in the Digital Media Research Centre. They discuss Dan's PhD project, which looks at machine learning and the theoretical concept of simulation. Dan walks us through the changing definition of simulation over the centuries, and how it now applies to modern generative AI. 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.

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Researching climate change scepticism with Caroline Gardam (#13)

Monday, November 4, 2024 • Duration 27:13

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.

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The Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society Mini Series with Daniel Angus (#4)

Monday, August 19, 2024 • Duration 30:25

In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Kate FitzGerald chats with Professor Daniel Angus, the Director of the Digital Media Research Centre. Recently, the DMRC responded to the Joint Select Committee on Social Media and Australian Society, appointed by the Australian Government. In this mini series, we will be chatting with scholars who contributed to the extensive DMRC submission. In part one, Dan provides an overview of the submission and discusses his specific work on advertising transparency on social media platforms. 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.

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Science-based journalism and what it means to be interdisciplinary with Alice Fleerackers (#3)

Sunday, August 18, 2024 • Duration 30:48

In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Sam Vilkins chats with Alice Fleerackers, a visiting postdoctoral fellow from the University of British Columbia, Canada. They discuss Alice's research, which focuses on science-based journalism. They also talk about what it means to be an interdisciplinary scholar and tips for academic conferences. 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.

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Social media strategies during the Norwegian general election with Hedvig Tønnesen (#2)

Season 1 · Episode 2

Monday, August 12, 2024 • Duration 20:47

In this episode of Read Them Sideways, your host Sebastian Svegaard speaks with Hedvig Tønnesen, a visiting PhD student from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Sebastian and Hedvig discuss her PhD project, which explores the strategies of political parties on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter during the 2021 parliamentary election campaign in Norway. 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.

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Conspiracy theories in United States politics with Kate FitzGerald (#1)

Season 1 · Episode 1

Friday, August 9, 2024 • Duration 25:54

In this episode of Read Them Sideways, Sam Vilkins sits down with PhD student Kate FitzGerald to discuss conspiracy theories, particularly in the wake of the Donald Trump assassination attempt. You can read more of Kate's thoughts in her recent piece in The Conversation. 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.

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United States politics and dark political communication with Stephen Harrington (#12)

Wednesday, October 16, 2024 • Duration 36:55

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.

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Conspiracy theories on Danish Twitter with Frederik Grønbæk Aarup (#11)

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 • Duration 29:26

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.

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The closure of X in Brazil with Tariq Choucair & Vinicius Ferraz (#10)

Monday, September 30, 2024 • Duration 51:21

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.

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Challenging climate change denial with John Cook (#9)

Monday, September 23, 2024 • Duration 31:33

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.

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