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Dave Earley

Australia's Top 20 news website rankings for February are out this morning. Big thanks to the 7.5 million Australians who read Guardian Australia last month 🙌

ABC News held No1 with 12.4m readers, with newscomau 2nd with 12.2m

GdnAus dropped -430k readers, but still held 6th spot 652k readers clear of SMH on 6.88m. Despite a small audience drop, Age overtook BBC to jump into Top 10. Keep in mind the month was 3 days (-10%) shorter as well!

Elsewhere in the Top20, The Australian jumped two spots in the table to 12th, overtaking NYTimes, while Forbes dropped 5 spots to 18th and SkyNewsOz was down two spots to 17th.

NIH weirdly reappears at 13th with a huge 810k readers added in Feb, but maybe the big news is The Nightly making their first ever appearance in the Top 20.

CourierMail are also back in Top20 for the first time since Oct last year, with DailyTele & Fox Sports dropping out

I might add that I am particularly pleased to see Guardian Australia's attention time (average minutes per person) up at 20mins here, which is the highest it's been since Oct/Nov last year, but would put us at 4th if you sorted the Top20 on that measure.

Link to January's Top20 rankings in the comments.

Table of the Top 20 news brand rankings. Source: Ipsos Iris Online Measurement Service, February 2025, Age +14, All Devices (PC/Laptop, Smartphone and Tablet)s, Text, Brand Level, News Category Excluding aggregators and Weather, Audience (000s), Audience Reach (%), Average Mins PP
#audience#journalism#media
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earthling

Affective Politics of Digital Media; Propaganda by Other Means; Edited by Megan Boler & Elizabeth Davis, 2020

This interdisciplinary, international collection examines how sophisticated digital practices and technologies exploit and capitalize on emotions, with particular focus on how social media are used to exacerbate social conflicts surrounding racism, misogyny, and nationalism.

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Introduction: Propaganda by Other Means; 1 Affect, Media, Movement: Interview with Susanna Paasonen and Zizi Papacharissi; 2 Reverberation, Affect, and Digital Politics of Responsibility; 3 “Fuck Your Feelings”: The Affective Weaponization of Facts and Reason; 4 Blockchain, and Digital Teleologies; 5 Becoming Kind: A Political Affect for Post-Truth Times; 6 Beyond Behaviorism and Black Boxes: The Future of Media Theory Interview with Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Warren Sack, and Sarah Sharma; 7 Pioneering Countercultural Conservatism: Limbaugh, Drudge, and Breitbart; 8 Breitbart’s Attacks on Mainstream Media: Victories, Victimhood, and Vilification; 9 Algorithmic Enclaves: Affective Politics and Algorithms in the Neoliberal Social Media Landscape; 10 Hashtagging the Québec Mosque Shooting: Twitter Discourses of Resistance, Mourning, and Islamophobia; 11 Hindu Nationalism, News Channels, and “Post-Truth” Twitter: A Case Study of “Love Jihad”; 12 Computational Propaganda and the News: Journalists’ Perceptions of the Effects of Digital Manipulation on Reporting; 13 Empathic Media, Emotional AI, and the Optimization of Disinformation; 14 The Heart’s Content: The Emotional Turn at Upworthy; 15 Empires of Feeling: Social Media and Emotive Politics; 16 Nudging Interventions in Regulating the Digital Gangsters in an Era of Friction-Free Surveillance Capitalism; 17 Digital Propaganda and Emotional Micro-Targeting: Interview with Jonathan Albright, Carole Cadwalladr, Paolo Gerbaudo, and TShaw
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Serge from Babka

Disk rot issues in DVDs are a good reminder that the best thing you can do to your digital media is to copy it!

Copy protection schemes can be bypassed and you're protecting your investment.

Also remember that BluRay is a DRM technology and your media may not be playable on a BluRay player in the future, so copy your media now!

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0

Ars Technica · “They curdle like milk”: WB DVDs from 2006–2008 are rotting away in their casesBy Scharon Harding
#Diskrot#DRM#DVD
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Ecologia Digital

"#Amazon’s recent decision to stop allowing people to #download copies of their Kindle #ebooks to a computer has vindicated some of my longstanding beliefs about #digitalmedia. Specifically, that it doesn’t exist and you don’t own it unless you can copy and access it without being connected to the internet."

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404 Media · The Digital Packrat ManifestoDRM and big tech's war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too.
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Dave
#BREAKING NEWS: It's the Top 20 news website rankings in Australia for January! Massive thank you to the 7.96 MILLION Australians who read Guardian Australia last month 🙌👏

ABC surged back to No1 with +731k readers to reach 12.48m, as newscomau dropped to No2 on 11.76m after losing -413k readers in the month. Guardian Australia added +651k readers to hold 6th 💪 with 7.96m, 1.25m readers ahead of SMH at No7, who dropped -266k readers in January. And only 200k readers behind 7News in 5th! That's normally about a 2m audience gap.

DailyMail added +936k readers in January, on top of their +1.1m in December, to now be ranked No4, and up an astonishing 2m readers since they recorded 6.6m readers in November. That Nov measure had them 650k readers behind Guardian Australia and below us in the rankings at No7.

Huge months for SBS and BBC, with both adding more than 800k users in January to take top10 spots at the expense of The Age and NY Times. All NewsCorp properties in the Top20 lost audience, with newscomau -413k, The Australian -279k, SkyNewsOz -169k, Herald Sun -222k and DailyTele -377k

#audience #journalism #media #newspapers #journalists #digitalmedia #audiencedevelopment #audienceengagement #audiencegrowth #seo #newsproduct #auspol
Table of the Top 20 news brand rankings. Source: Ipsos Iris Online Measurement Service, January 2025, Age +14, All Devices (PC/Laptop, Smartphone and Tablet)s, Text, Brand Level, News Category Excluding aggregators and Weather, Audience (000s), Audience Reach (%), Average Mins PP
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CIM Warwick

And, following the social convention here, we will start with an #introduction

We are a Research Centre at the #UniversityOfWarwick dedicated to expanding the role of interdisciplinary methods through new lines of inquiry that cut across disciplinary boundaries.

Besides being committed to excellent research, we also offer a #PhD Programme and 3 #interdisciplinary Master degrees on #bigData #DataVisualisations and #DigitalMedia and Culture

You can find us at warwick.ac.uk/cim

warwick.ac.ukCentre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM)The homepage for the Centre of Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick, UK
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