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Biography
Mathieu is Professor of Communication in the University of Canberra’s Faculty of Arts and Design and Honorary Associate Professor of Sociology at the Australian National University. His research interests lie at the intersection of political communication and sociology. Mathieu co-founded the Australian National University’s Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online networks, a world leader in big data analytics and computational social science. Most recently, he is developing heuristics to detect online echo chambers (Bots Building Bridges (3B): Theoretical, Empirical, and Technological Foundations for Systems that Monitor and Support Political Deliberation Online, Volkswagen Foundation, Artificial Intelligence and the Society of the Future, 2021-2024). In the University of Canberra’s News and Media Research Centre, he has initiated multidisciplinary collaborations with UC researchers. With colleagues in the Faculty of Education, he is designing information literacy resources for schools (Co-developing a new approach to media literacy in the attention economy, ACT Education Directorate-UC Affiliated Schools Research Program, 2021-2022).
Mathieu has played a key role in developing the field of peer production studies (the term ‘peer production’ describes free and open source software in the 1990s, Wikipedia in the 2000s, and Blockchain in the 2010s) by founding and editing the peer-reviewed Journal of Peer Production (2011-2021), by editing the Handbook of Peer Production (Wiley-Blackwell Handbooks in Communication and Media, 2021), and by founding an international think tank, the Digital Commons Policy Council, in 2021. He also leads an international team researching the economic and environmental sustainability of free and open source software (Mapping the co-production of digital infrastructure by peer projects and firms, Sloan and Ford Foundations, Critical Digital Infrastructure Fund, 2019-2021; DCPC: Pilot Research and Operational Costs, Ford Foundation, 2022-2024).
Mathieu's research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals such as Social Networks, Information, Communication & Society, Réseaux, New Media and Society, the International Journal of Communication, and Organization Studies, amongst others. He previously held academic appointments at the Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3, the Australian National University and the Université Paris Sorbonne. He has also worked as a magazine editor and exhibition curator in Singapore, and as a researcher for the Australian Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy.
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Sustainability of digital commons; Diffusion of misinformation; Information literacy and information resilience.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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DCPC: Operational and pilot research support for the Digital Commons Policy Council
O'Neil, M., Braybrooke, K., Broca, S., Daly, A., de Blanc, M., Rikap, C., Thwaites, D. & Zacchiroli, S.
1/11/22 → 31/10/24
Project: Research
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3B: Bots Building Bridges (3B): Theoretical, Empirical, and Technological Foundations for Systems that Monitor and Support Political Deliberation Online
O'Neil, M., Ackland, R., Cimiano, P., Esposito, E., Seelmeyer, U. & Veale, T.
1/07/21 → 1/07/25
Project: Research
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ASRP - Co-developing a new approach to media literacy in the attention economy - Part 2
O'Neil, M. & Cunneen, R.
15/10/21 → 15/10/22
Project: Research
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ASRP - Co-developing a new approach to media literacy in the attention economy - Part 1
Cunneen, R., O'Neil, M., Cheater, R., Turner, K. & Margetts, W.
1/08/21 → 31/08/22
Project: Research
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Social media and COVID-19 health misinformation: Evidence from Australia
Khan, I., O'Neil, M. & Holland, K.
1/02/21 → 20/12/21
Project: Research
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Building Resilience with Information Literacy and Information Health: Submission to Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media
O'Neil, M., Ackland, R. & Cunneen, R., 17 Feb 2023, Canberra, Australia. 20 p.Research output: Book/Report › Other
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Digital commons for the ecological transition: Promises, practices and policies
Broca, S., Daly, A., O'Neil, M. & Shulz, S., 7 Jun 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) p. 1-17. 17 p.Research output: Contribution to conference (non-published works) › Paper
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Transparency is the new objectivity: Fact-Checking in the classroom with Wikipedia
O'Neil, M. & Cunneen, R., 15 Mar 2023, Asia-Pacific Journalism Review, 2, p. 1-7 7 p.Research output: Contribution to Newspaper/Magazine/Bulletin › Article
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A short history of the Journal of Peer Production by its founder
O'Neil, M., 28 Feb 2022, In: Journal of Peer Production. 15, p. 1-3 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Other Journal Article
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Co-producing industrial public goods on GitHub: Selective firm cooperation, volunteer-employee labour and participation inequality
O'Neil, M., Cai, X., Muselli, L. & Zacchiroli, S., 27 Apr 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: New Media and Society. p. 1-37 37 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Activities
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News, Trust & Misinformation: Evidence and Strategies webinar
Kerry Maria Mccallum (Speaker), Caroline Fisher (Speaker), Sora Park (Speaker), Kieran Mcguinness (Speaker) & Mathieu O'Neil (Speaker)
27 Oct 2022Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
Impacts
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Asked to provide evidence for a second time by the Australian Senate Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media.
Mathieu O'Neil (Participant), Michael Jensen (Participant) & Kerry Mccallum (Participant)
Impact: Social impacts
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Evidence provided to the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters: Inquiry into and report on all aspects of the conduct of the 2016 federal Election and matters related thereto
Mathieu O'Neil (Participant), Sora Park (Participant), Caroline Fisher (Participant), Glen Fuller (Participant), Michael Jensen (Participant) & Jee Young LEE (Participant)
Impact: Social impacts
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Provided evidence to the Australian Senate Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media
Mathieu O'Neil (Participant), Robert Ackland (Participant) & Michael Jensen (Participant)
Impact: Social impacts
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