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Will J. Grant
Researcher at Australian National University
Publications - 31
Citations - 936
Will J. Grant is an academic researcher from Australian National University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Science communication. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 28 publications receiving 658 citations. Previous affiliations of Will J. Grant include University of Queensland.
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Digital Dialogue? Australian politicians' use of the social network tool Twitter
TL;DR: In this paper, the first quantitative analysis of the utilisation of the social network tool Twitter by Australian politicians is presented, which suggests that politicians are attempting to use Twitter for political engagement, though some are more successful in this than others.
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Science communication on YouTube: factors that affect channel and video popularity
TL;DR: Although professionally generated content is superior in number, user-generated content was significantly more popular and videos that had consistent science communicators were more popular than those without a regular communicator.
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Exploring the YouTube science communication gender gap: A sentiment analysis.
Inoka Amarasekara,Will J. Grant +1 more
TL;DR: Analysis of the most popular science, engineering and mathematics–themed channels reveals a conspicuous absence of female communicators, with the hosts of just 32 of these channels presenting as female.
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“THE RUSSIANS ARE HACKING MY BRAIN!” investigating Russia's internet research agency twitter tactics during the 2016 United States presidential campaign
TL;DR: Analysis of tweets from handles associated with the Russian Internet Research Agency in an effort to better understand the tactics employed by that organization on the social media platform Twitter in their attempt to influence U.S. political discourse and the outcome of the 2016 US Presidential election showed camouflage was the most common type of tweet.
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I’ll See It When I Believe It: Motivated Numeracy in Perceptions of Climate Change Risk*
Matthew S. Nurse,Will J. Grant +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that people's attitudes about anthropogenic climate change risks are not only influenced by scientific data, such as the likelihood of harm, the consequences of failing to act and the cost and eff...