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Snakes on the brain
The Share Wars team faces two big challenges as it continues to analyse the data capture from last year. First, the practicalities of getting our arms (and heads) around a data set of several million...
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How Share Wars categorizes stories
The first data collection period of the Share Wars project ran from March-June 2012. In that period we tracked every article published on the homepages of 118 global news sites. We tracked the...
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How priming can give you the social edge
Marking the Moment: When it comes, the Pistorius verdict will likely be shared widely. The easy thing about working with our data is it’s retrospective. We’re neatly classifying stories that have...
View ArticleShare Wars on the road: UTS journalism school
A response to Twitter comments from UTS journalism students during our presentation on Monday, April 29, 2013. View the story “Share Wars on the road: UTS journalism school” on Storify
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Review: Winning the story wars, by Jonah Sachs
Recently a friend of Share Wars drew our attention to book titled Winning the Story Wars. The two main words on the book’s cover are “Story Wars”, and given that the book mentioned social networks, the...
View ArticleShare Wars for the Walkley Foundation
Here is the ultimate Share Wars listicle – 10 things you need to know about sharing stories – written for the Walkley Foundation magazine/site. It pretty well sums up the project to date in 10...
View ArticleShare Wars on Radio National
An audio interview with Hal Crawford on how journalism is full of lazy thinking and why the audience is always right. With Richard Aedy on the ABC’s Media Report. Listen here.
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Homepage graphs reveal social approach
Our analysis of the shareability of articles on the world’s leading news sites has revealed distinct profiles that reflect different editorial strategies. The most striking example is Buzzfeed....
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Share Wars at The Walkley Foundation
Team Share Wars recently discussed our new book All Your Friends Like This at the Walkley Foundation’s “Future Fridays” event in Sydney. In the crowd, among others, were Twitter’s Flip Prior, Buzzfeed...
View ArticleWhat was the most shared word of 2015?
Were you appalled by the executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran or did you feel justice was done? Are you for or against the death penalty? These are not questions that leave us on the fence....
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