Name:	Darryl Paul Woodford
Title:	BEng, MSc, PhD
Position:	Founder at Hypometer and Fantasy Insider — Brisbane, Australia
Languages:	English
Qualifications:	BEng Computer Games and Internet Technology from University of Essex (United Kingdom). MSc Information Technology: Media Technology and Games from IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark). Doctor of Philosophy from Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
Interests	Software Development, Python, Fantasy Sports & DFS, Twitter, Social Media, Gambling
Websites:	http://www.dpwoodford.net http://www.hypometerlive.com | http://blog.thehypometer.com http://www.fantasyinsider.com.au
E-mail:	darryl [at] dpwoodford.net

Employment:

• 2015 – Present: Founder, Hypometer & Fantasy Insider
• 2013 – 2015: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
• 2012 – 2013: Senior Research Assistant, Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
• 2011 – 2012: Research Assistant, Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
• 2010 – 2012: Sessional Academic, Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
• 2009: Assistant Lecturer, IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark)

Publications:

• “Measuring the success of tourism and events Queensland’s “instameet” campaign” (w/ Katie Prowd). CAUTHE 2015. — LINK
•  “Social media and niche sports: The Netball ANZ Championship and Commonwealth Games on Twitter” (w/ Portia Vann & Axel Bruns). Media International Australia — LINK
• “Introducing Telemetrics: The Weighted Tweet Index” (w/ Katie Prowd et al.). Association of Internet Researchers Conference 2014 (IR15) — LINK
• “Mapping Social TV Audiences: The Footprints of Leading Shows in the Australian Twittersphere.” (w/ Axel Bruns, Tim Highfield & Katie Prowd). Association of Internet Researchers Conference 2014 (IR15) — LINK
• “Exploring the Global Demographics of Twitter” (w/ Axel Bruns & Troy Sadkowsky).  Association of Internet Researchers Conference 2014 (IR15) — LINK
• “Towards a methodology for examining Twitter follower accession” (w/ Axel Bruns & Troy Sadkowsky) — First Monday 19(4) — LINK
• “Identifying the Events That Connect Social Media Users: Charting Follower Accession on Twitter” (w/ Axel Bruns) — Sage Research Methods — LINK
• “Slicing Big Data: Gambling, Twitter & Time Sensitive Information” — Association of Internet Researchers Conference 2013 (IR14) — PDF
• “Social Media, Data Analytics and Videogames Development: Halfbrick Case Study” with John Banks (first author) — Association of Internet Researchers Conference 2013 (IR14) — PDF
  
• Evaluating Consent and Legitimacy Amongst Shifting Community Norms: an EVE Online Case Study (w/ Nic Suzor) — Journal of Virtual Worlds Research 6 (3), September 2013 — PDF
• “Constructing the Ideal EVE Online Player” (w/ Kelly Bergstrom, Marcus Carter & Chris Paul) — Proceedings of DiGRA 2013: DeFragging Game Studies — PDF
• “Regulating Virtual Worlds: Considering Participant-Driven Approaches” — Proceedings of DiGRA 2013: DeFragging Game Studies — PDF
• “Innovation & Workplace Culture in the Australian Interactive Entertainment Industry: The HalfBrick Story” (w/ John Banks & Stuart Cunningham) — Proceedings of DiGRA 2013: DeFragging Game Studies — PDF
• “Governance Challenges in the Global Games Industry” — New Directions in the Development of Creative & Media Industries conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 7-8 June 2013 — PDF
• “Dispute Resolution Across Platforms: Offshore Gambling Industry & EVE Online” in Proceedings of the EVE Online Workshop, Foundation of Digital Games Conference ’13 — Chania, Greece. May 2013 — PDF
• “Hanging Out Is Hard To Do: Methodology in Non-Avatar Environments” in Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds 4(3), November 2012.
• “Regulating Virtual Environments” in Proceedings of the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games, pp. 270–272 (2012).
• “Governing Virtual Worlds” in The IUP Journal of Cyber Law, Vol. VIII, Nos. 3 & 4, pp. 24-33, August & November 2009
• “Gambling” with Gordon Calleja (first author) in Encyclopaedia of Play: A Social History, Edited by Rodney Carlisle, Sage Publications, USA (2009).

Presentations:

• “Measuring the success of tourism and events Queensland’s “instameet” campaign”. CAUTHE 2015 (w/ Katie Prowd). Gold Coast, Australia. LINK
• “Mapping a National Twittersphere: A ‘Big Data’ Analysis of Australian Twitter User Networks” (w/ Axel Bruns, Troy Sadkowsky, Tim Highfield). ECREA, Lisbon, 13 Nov. 2014. SS
• “Introducing Telemetrics: The Weighted Tweet Index” (w/ Katie Prowd et al.). Association of Internet Researchers Conference 2014 (IR15) — SS
• “Mapping Social TV Audiences: The Footprints of Leading Shows in the Australian Twittersphere.” (w/ Axel Bruns, Tim Highfield & Katie Prowd). Association of Internet Researchers Conference 2014 (IR15) — SS
• “Exploring the Global Demographics of Twitter” (w/ Axel Bruns & Troy Sadkowsky).  Association of Internet Researchers Conference 2014 (IR15) — SS
• “Everyone’s Watching It: The Role of Hype in Television Engagement through Social Media” – Paper w/ Katie Prowd — Social Media and the Transformation of Public Space Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. June 2014. – SS
• “Mapping Online Publics: New Methods for Twitter Research” – Public workshop w/ Axel Bruns & Jean Burgess — Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities, Germany. June 2014 — SS
• “Audiencing Through Social Media: A Brief Overview” — Paper presented w/ Katie Prowd (& Axel Bruns) — Australasian Audience Research Symposium, University of New South Wales — SS
• “Slicing Big Data: Gambling, Twitter & Time Sensitive Information” — Panel Discussion w/ Shawn Walker & Avijit Paul — Association of Internet Researchers Conference 2013 (IR14) — SS
• “Methodological Challenges” — IR14 Pre-Conference Workshop: Social media research ethics & methods — SS
• “Social Media, Data Analytics and Videogames Development: Halfbrick Case Study” with John Banks (first author) — Association of Internet Researchers Conference 2013 (IR14)
• “Constructing the Ideal EVE Online Player” — Panel Discussion w/ Kelly Bergstrom, Marcus Carter & Chris Paul — DiGRA 2013 — SS
• “Regulating Virtual Worlds: Considering Participant-Driven Approaches” — Proceedings of DiGRA 2013: DeFragging Game Studies — SS
• “Innovation & Workplace Culture in the Australian Interactive Entertainment Industry: The HalfBrick Story” (w/ John Banks & Stuart Cunningham) — Proceedings of DiGRA 2013: DeFragging Game Studies — PDF
• “Digital Methods and Social Media Analytics” — Workshop w/ Jean Burgess & Axel Bruns, CCI Winter School — Brisbane, June 2013 — SS
• “Game Studies and Beyond” — Workshop w/ John Banks, CCI Winter School — Brisbane, June 2013 — SS
• “Governance Challenges in the Global Games Industry” — New Directions in the Development of Creative & Media Industries conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 7-8 June 2013 — SS
• “EVE Exceptionalism: Anything goes?” — Panel Discussion w/ Marcus Carter, Catherine Goodfellow & Christopher Paul — Foundation of Digital Games Conference ’13 — Chania, Greece. May 2013 — SS
• “Dispute Resolution Across Platforms: Offshore Gambling Industry & EVE Online” in Proceedings of the EVE Online Workshop, Foundation of Digital Games Conference ’13 — Chania, Greece. May 2013 — SS
• “Die Twitter-Userbase: Erste Beobachtungen” w/ Axel Bruns — Twitter Workshop, Munich, April 2013
• “Code: Dominant or Subservient” — CODE 2012, Swinburne University, 20-23 November, 2012
• “Regulating Online & other projects” — Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program — 9 – 20 July, 2012
• “Methodology in non-avatar environments” — CCI Winter School — Brisbane, Australia — 21 – 27 June, 2012 – SS
• “Regulating Virtual Environments” — Foundation of Digital Games Doctoral Consortium — Raleigh, North Carolina, USA — 29 May – 1 June, 2012 — SS
• “Gambling & Gaming: Power Relations in Dispute Resolution” — Perspectives on Power Conference — University of Queensland — Brisbane, Australia — November 2011 – SS
• “Hanging out is hard to do: Ethnographic Methodology in Non-Avatar Environments” — CCI Symposium — Sydney, November 2011 – SS
• “Games, Innovation and Research Methodology” — CCI Symposium: The Big Picture: Socio-Cultural Research and Australia’s Policy Challenges — Brisbane, July 2011
• “Internet Research Methods” — CCI Symposium — Melbourne, November 2010
• “The Fallacy of the Magic Circle” — Games Convention Online — Leipzig, August 2009 – SS (Invited Presentation)
• Panel Discussion: Farewell to the “Magic Circle” – Expansion of Society into the Digital? Virtual Worlds as Social Worlds — w/ Mark Butler, Ren Reynolds & Stephan Günzel — Games Convention Online — Leipzig, August 2009 (Invited Presentation)
• Abandoning the Magic Circle — “Breaking the Magic Circle” seminar — Tampere, Finland — April 2008 –  PDF — SS
• Governing Virtual Worlds – Brunel 2nd Annual Postgraduate Games Conference — London, England — September 2008 –PPT

Teaching:

• Contemporary Investigation in Journalism, Media and Communication (KCB310) — Unit Co-Ordinator & Project Supervisions — Semester 2, 2014 — Queensland University of Technology
• New Media: Internet, Self & Beyond (KCB206) — Semester 1, 2014 — Queensland University of Technology
• Contemporary Investigation in Journalism, Media and Communication (KCB310) — Project Supervisions *2 — Semester 2, 2013 — Queensland University of Technology
• New Media Ethnographies (KCB207) — Sessional Academic, Lecturer & Course Design — Semester 2, 2012 — Queensland University of Technology
• New Media: Internet, Self & Beyond (KCB206) — Sessional Academic & Lecturer — Semester 1, 2012 — Queensland University of Technology
• Exploring New Media Worlds (KCB207) — Sessional Academic & Lecturer — Semester 2, 2011 — Queensland University of Technology
• Introduction to Games Production (INB181) — Workshop Demonstrator — Semester 2, 2011 — Queensland University of Technology
• New Media: Internet, Self & Beyond (KCB206) — Sessional Academic — Semester 1, 2011 — Queensland University of Technology
• New Media Worlds (KCB202) — Sessional Academic & Lecturer — Semester 2, 2010 — Queensland University of Technology
• Game Theory — Assistant Lecturer — Fall 2009 — IT University of Copenhagen
• Game Design — Assistant Lecturer – Fall 2009 — IT University of Copenhagen
• Game Culture — Teaching Assistant — Spring 2009 — IT University of Copenhagen

Media Publications:

• “From selfies to climate change: the# G20 debate on Twitter” with Peta Mitchell, Katie Prowd & Axel Burns – The Conversation – LINK
• Asking the wrong questions about gambling” – Inside Story – LINK
• “Caribbean Copyright Showdown” with Ramon Lobato – Inside Story –  LINK
• “My Kitchen Rules pair are all the rage on social media – for now” with Katie Prowd – The Conversation – LINK
• “Brands are big winners in the ‘first social media World Cup’” with Katie Prowd – The Conversation – LINK
• “View from Brazil: Twitter as a tool for protest – and procrastination” with Katie Prowd & Ana Vimieiro – The Conversation – LINK
• “Bigger than the Superbowl: the World Cup breaks viewing records” with Katie Prowd – The Conversation – LINK
• “The World Cup that was: a look back through social media” with Katie Prowd – The Conversation – LINK
• “Party Tricks struggles for votes with a social media audience” with Katie Prowd – The Conversation – LINK
• “Online fine line: using social media to predict the Big Brother eviction” with Katie Prowd – The Conversation – LINK
  
• “Big Brother ratings are down – but social media use is up” with Katie Prowd – The Conversation – LINK
• “Collaborations are key to kickstarting your YouTube career” with Katie Prowd – The Conversation – LINK

Media Interviews:

• “YouTube & Viral Videos” — ABC Radio 612 — 30 July 2013
• “Rupert’s changing the world, 140 characters at a time” — Crikey (Farz Edraki) — LINK
• “My Kitchen Rules had strongest engagement in battle of reality TV shows on Twitter” – Mumbrella (Megan Reynolds) — LINK
• “Reality TV stars need Reality Check” – Courier Mail – LINK
• “Local Experts Question Twitter’s TV Plan” – AAP & Various Outlets — LINK (Yahoo!) | LINK (Sydney Morning Herald)
• “Social Media Panel” – 4BC Radio – Ongoing (weekly)
• “Are audiences interested in Ten’s social push for new show Party Tricks?” — LINK

Grants:

• “A Platform For Social Media Analytics” — QUTBluebox — October 2014 – July 2015
• “Metrics for Social Television” — QUTBlueBox — February 2014 – September 2014
• “Telemetrics” — QUT Virtual Linkage — February 2014 – October 2014
• “Comparative Social Network Analysis for Topic-Specific Online Communities” – ATN-DAAD Grant w/ University of Gottingen — 2014-2015
• “Commercialising Social Media Analytics” — QUTBlueBox — November 2013 – February 2014