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Snurb — Sunday 1 May 2011 23:56

Some Long-Overdue Updates

e-Government | Produsers and Produsage | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Social Media Network Mapping | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | Twitter | Social Media | Eidos 2011 | EMPA 2011 | Crisis Communication | CeDEM 2011 |

Sorry: it’s been a while since I’ve updated this blog. Largely, that’s because I’ve been so busy with our work on the Mapping Online Publics project – see the project blog for all the latest information. Following the various natural disasters we’ve endured – in Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, to begin with –, that work has focussed for the moment especially on the use of social media for crisis communication, with plenty of outcomes already. In particular, this includes our two most recent presentations:

  • “Social Media Use in the Queensland Floods”, at the Eidos symposium in Brisbane …
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Snurb — Monday 21 February 2011 12:43

Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards: Call for Expressions of Interest

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I’m afraid this blog is going through a slow period again as I catch up with a backlog of work. I did want to pass on some information on this exciting postdoc opportunity in Media & Communication at Queensland University of Technology, though: we’ve recently been ranked as the leading media research institution in Australia (“well above world standard”), and we’re now calling for expressions of interest from researchers who are interested in joining our team under the new Discovery Early Career Researcher Award scheme.

More information, and details for the key QUT people to contact, below. On a …

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Snurb — Wednesday 24 November 2010 13:43

Some More Presentations to Finish the Year

Politics | Elections | Journalism | Blogs and Blogging | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Industrial Journalism | Social Media Network Mapping | New Media and Public Communication (ARC Discovery) | Twitter | Conferences |

As 2010 draws to a close, its perhaps appropriate that my last couple of conference presentations for the year take a somewhat retrospective nature, summarising and reflecting on the 2010 Australian federal election, with a particular view on what we’ve learned about the state of Australian journalism in general and the role of Twitter in election coverage and debate in particular. I’ll present both those papers at different conferences in Sydney this Friday (26 November):

  • At the Journalism Education Association conference at the University of Technology Sydney, I’m presenting a somewhat polemical plenary, “The Blogification of Australian Journalism? Notes …
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Snurb — Sunday 24 October 2010 00:44

Gaming Capital in Social Gaming

Online Games | AoIR 2010 |

Gothenburg.
The next speaker at AoIR 2010 is Olli Sotamaa, whose interest is in social games and gaming capital. Olli is a social gamer himself (on FrontierVille and Mafia Wars), as are other presenters in this session – these activities are publicly announced on Facebook and other social network Websites, generating what can be described as gaming capital (a special form of social capital); how does this operate in relation to social games, then?

Playing Mafia Wars, for example, isn’t a particularly exciting or deep gaming experience, but it is still very popular; what is of most interest here are …

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Snurb — Sunday 24 October 2010 00:44

Cooperative and Competitive Social Gaming Models

Online Games | AoIR 2010 |

Gothenburg.
The next speaker in this session at AoIR 2010 is Luca Rossi, who begins by highlighting the great diversity in computer gaming, and the substantial social aspects of shared gaming experiences. Indeed, creating sociable gaming experiences is now an important aim for the industry.

And yet, playing on Facebook also remains a solitary experience to some extent – you’re playing with others, perhaps, but at a distance. Friends in such games are positioned as resources, who variously can be played with or against. Social relationships are used as games resources, and it is possible that specific game structures work …

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Snurb — Sunday 24 October 2010 00:36

The Emergence of Social Games

Online Games | AoIR 2010 |

Gothenburg.
And we’re in the final session of AoIR 2010 – it’s been a fun and very busy conference. I might be a little distracted in my coverage of this session, as the Hannover 96 – FC Köln game is on at the moment as well… 2:0 at the moment!

We’re starting with Lisbeth Klastrup, who notes that gaming on Facebook has really taken off in recent times; the Farmville application has been most popular so far, with millions of users. Studying social media network games has become an growing sub-set of digital games research, too.

Social media games tend …

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Snurb — Saturday 23 October 2010 23:04

Hybrid Organisational Innovation: The Case of Tela Botanica

Produsage Communities | Produsers and Produsage | Produsage in Business | AoIR 2010 |

Gothenburg.
The next speaker at AoIR 2010 is Serge Proulx, who is interested in how sharing practices are organised in the collaborative knowledge environment Tela Botanica. What does it mean to contribute to this type of online environment? The site is a French-language site for discussions on botany, founded in 1999, and highly successful in its field (with some 12,000 members to date).

The site publishes a weekly newsletter with some 7,700 subscribers that is open to contribution to all and allows for comments attached to articles; it also posts events and job offers. There is also the E-Flore …

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Snurb — Saturday 23 October 2010 22:33

Estonian Youths' Attitudes towards the Digital Environment

Internet Technologies | AoIR 2010 |

Gothenburg.
The first speaker in the next session at AoIR 2010 is Andra Siibak, whose interest is in the online practices of Estonian youths. The latest generation of users is often described as having a set of particular characteristics (independence, innovation, creativity, authority, control), but to what extent is this actually true? In Estonia, there certainly is a digital generation – 99.9% of 11-18-year-olds are using the Internet, many of them daily, but what are their characteristics, and how do they see themselves?

This study examined school essays by 16- and 17-year-olds on the topic of the digital generation, as …

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Snurb — Saturday 23 October 2010 22:03

Future Directions for the Music Industry: Lessons from the Swedish Independent Scene

Produsage Communities | Filesharing | AoIR 2010 | Music |

Gothenburg.
The last keynote at AoIR 2010 is by the fabulous Nancy Baym, whose recent work has focussed especially on the Swedish independent music industry. Nancy’s based in Kansas, but is now well connected with the Swedish music scene – and that’s just one example of the international cultural interconnections which we’re now seeing.

Her initial interest in Swedish music stems from exposure to independent music stores in the US which import overseas music; most of these stores are labours of love rather than significantly successful commercial enterprises – and they are now also selling music back to Sweden, in …

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Snurb — Saturday 23 October 2010 19:39

A Technological Shaping of the Social in Evidence-Based Policymaking Platforms

Politics | Government | Produsers and Produsage | AoIR 2010 |

Gothenburg.
The next speaker at AoIR 2010 is Anders Madsen, whose focus is on design choices in policy-oriented technologies of knowledge management. This operates in the context of discussions over the role of knowledge in democracy – how is the relevance of information and facts settled? Two divergent approaches to this highlight the role of science in generating evidence-based policy (which responds to well-defined problems), or alternatively see a range of wicked problems that need broad participation and socially robust policies.

Digital democracy can aid policymaking in these contexts; policymaking procedures can be grounded in new technologies of knowledge management …

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