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Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism

Snurb — Friday 1 November 2013 07:41

Revisiting Produsage

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After the “Compromised Data” symposium in Toronto I’ve made my way over to Europe, where my first stop is a PhD symposium in Copenhagen where I’ve been invited to present an update on my work on produsage. Here, I’ve revisited the fundamental concept of produsage and made the link to my current work on the uses of social media, especially in a journalistic context. Slides and audio below:

Produsage Revisited from Axel Bruns
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Snurb — Friday 1 November 2013 07:09

Produsage Revisited (Uses across Media 2013)

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Uses across Media 2013

Produsage Revisited

Axel Bruns

  • 31 Oct. 2013 – Uses across Media symposium, Copenhagen
Produsage Revisited from Axel Bruns
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Snurb — Sunday 20 October 2013 16:21

Some Recent and Upcoming Work

Politics | Elections | Produsers and Produsage | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Blogs and Blogging | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Social Media in Times of Crisis (ARC Linkage) | Social Media Network Mapping | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | Crisis Communication | Twitter | Publications | Conferences | Television |

When this site goes quiet, it’s usually because work is exceptionally busy. My apologies for the long silence since the launch of our major collection A Companion to New Media Dynamics – a range of projects, variously relating to the uses of social media in crisis communication, of Twitter in a number of national elections, of social media as a second-screen backchannel to televised events, and of ‘big data’ in researching online issue publics, have kept me occupied for the past eight months or so.

Now, I’m about to head off to Denver for the annual Association of Internet Researchers …

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Snurb — Monday 31 December 2012 15:03

A Final 2012 Publications Round-Up

Politics | Elections | Produsers and Produsage | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Blogs and Blogging | 'Big Data' | Social Media | Social Media in Times of Crisis (ARC Linkage) | Social Media Network Mapping | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | Crisis Communication | Twitter | Publications | Conferences | Television |

As we’re hurtling down the last few hours towards 2013, it seems like a good idea to take stock of what was an incredibly busy 2012. Here, then, is a round-up of all (I think) of my publications and presentations for the year, organised into loose thematic categories. In all, and with my various collaborators from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation and beyond, I seem to have generated some 4 book chapters, 12 journal articles, 22 conference presentations and one major report – and that’s not counting various articles in The Guardian, The Conversation …

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Snurb — Saturday 27 October 2012 00:40

Audience Attitudes towards Eyewitness Footage

Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Crisis Communication | ECREA 2012 | Television |

The next speakers in our ECREA 2012 panel are Laura Ahva and Maria Hellman, whose interest is in the citizen eyewitnessing of crises. Witnessing has always been a central task of crisis journalism, but citizen-generated content is now increasingly important; citizen eyewitness images are especially central now, and are mediated from the sites of crises to the global audience. The Arab Spring provides a very useful recent example for this.

Professional media and citizen eyewitnessing have become co-dependent on each other, leading perhaps even to a symbiotic relationship or congruence between the two. Audiences use such content to make sense …

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Snurb — Friday 26 October 2012 19:01

Political Networks on Twitter: Tweeting the Queensland State Election (ECREA 2012)

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ECREA 2012

Political Networks on Twitter: Tweeting the Queensland State Election

Axel Bruns, Stephen Harrington, and Tim Highfield

  • 26 Oct. 2012 – European Communication Conference, Istanbul

Political Networks on Twitter: Tweeting the Queensland State Election from Axel Bruns

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Snurb — Thursday 25 October 2012 17:51

Towards a Considered View of Citizens' Media

Politics | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Social Media | ECREA 2012 |

The second ECREA 2012 keynote speaker this morning is Clemencia Rodríguez, who will be shifting our focus further towards citizens' media. She notes that it is important to take historical precedents seriously – reacting against the popular representation of recent political unrest as driven and determined by social media, and as leaderless revolutions.

But media have always played a role as mediators, of course – in political communication, social actors negotiate their identities through interaction; media effects theory has this wrong. The visibility of today's ICTs has led to a resurgence of media effects theory, and this needs to be …

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Snurb — Sunday 21 October 2012 12:13

#auspol, #qldpol, and #wapol: Twitter and the New Australian Political Commentariat (AoIR 2012)

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AoIR 2012

#auspol, #qldpol, and #wapol: Twitter and the New Australian Political Commentariat

Tim Highfield, Axel Bruns, and Stephen Harrington

  • 21 Oct. 2012 – Association of Internet Researchers conference, Salford
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Snurb — Saturday 20 October 2012 19:24

Introducing the Australian Twitter News Index

Politics | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | Twitter | AoIR 2012 |

The first AoIR 2012 session this Saturday starts with my paper with my colleagues Tim Highfield and Stephen Harrington, which presents our work on the Australian Twitter New Index (ATNIX). Below are the slides – for more, also see my column at The Conversation. Audio to follow soon! I've added the audio now, too.

Sharing the News: Dissemination of Links to Australian News Sites on Twitter from Axel Bruns

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Snurb — Saturday 20 October 2012 01:07

News and Affect in #Egypt

Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Journalism | Social Media | Crisis Communication | Twitter | AoIR 2012 |

Up next at AoIR 2012 is Zizi Papacharissi, whose focus is on structures of affect and their connection to political engagement. What is the texture of feeling here – for example in the expression of sentiment on Twitter? In her talk here, Zizi will focus on the #egypt hashtag.

Twitter is a form of news storytelling here, presenting collectively prodused newsfeeds which interact with the wider news economy; it can be an alternative or a primary channel for information. As a news reporting mechanism, Twitter can also offer premediation for news events which have not yet happened, or act …

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