ABSTRACT This article outlines and demonstrates how multi-platform issue mapping can be used to investigate the impact of scholarly contributions to public debates, using digital methods and data drawn from digital media platforms. We apply this approach to the social media conversation surrounding the January 2018 Australia Day controversy, with a specific focus on the role of ‘amplifier platforms’ like The Conversation in bringing scholarly perspectives to a general audience. We identify key scholarly contributions to the debate, and analyse how they were shared and discussed on Twitter. Findings suggest that articles with a strong positionality are taken up by like-minded, interest-based communities, while those that provide an overview of the issues at hand may be able to reach across these different groups. Finally, the article discusses the future potential of this approach for the analysis of scholarly impact on matters of public concern.

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使用社交媒体问题映射分析学术界对公共辩论的贡献：以澳大利亚日争议为例

摘要本文概述并演示了如何使用多平台问题映射，使用数字方法和从数字媒体平台获取的数据来调查学术论文对公开辩论的影响。我们将这种方法应用于围绕2018年1月澳大利亚日争议的社交媒体对话中，尤其关注像The Conversation这样的``放大器平台''在将学术观点带给广大读者方面的作用。我们确定辩论的主要学术贡献，并分析如何在Twitter上分享和讨论它们。研究结果表明，志趣相投，以兴趣为基础的社区对具有强定位性的文章进行了研究，而概述当前问题的文章可能可以覆盖这些不同的群体。最后，