Today I was honoured to open the Charles Sturt University one day symposium titled "Analysing social media for better public policy". Speakers and
participants came from across the country, and I was invited to open the
event. Details about the symposium are here:
https://www.csu.edu.au/research/ilws/events/social-media-symposium
The aims of the symposium were to:
- Share cases where social media has been used to inform or guide public policy and decisions
- Share research highlighting the application of social media to important policy matters
- Bring together people working and researching in this developing field
- Explore challenges of social media data use such as ethics, geolocation, sample representativeness, access to data
- Consider systems and processes for gathering and analysing social media for public policy and decisions.
The symposium included discussion about kangaroos, cervical screening, obesity, e-cigarettes, sharks, carp, policymakers, ethics, and concluded with "workshopping the wicked".
