Well, with the Future of Journalism now safely behind us (the event, that is - some reflections at Larvatus Prodeo, and also here later this week, hopefully), it's time to look ahead to other upcoming conferences and talks. I've posted some information about some of these on the Produsage.org site already, so here's a quick summary only. You can also track my progress through these upcoming events at Dopplr.com.
On 9 October, I'm giving a keynote at the biennial conference of the Arts Libraries Society Australia/New Zealand (ARLIS/ANZ), here in Brisbane. The title for my talk will be All the World's a Library: Produsage and User-Led Curation. (More information at Produsage.org.)
After that, I'm off to Copenhagen for this year's conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (15-18 Oct.). In addition to my duties as a member of the AoIR executive, I'm also a respondent at the doctoral colloquium, and will co-present four papers with various colleagues - and I'm also on a scholarly online publishing panel:
- Collaborative Local Content Creation through edgeX: An Evaluation
(Sal Humphreys and Axel Bruns) - Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election
(Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, Barry Saunders, Lars Kirchhoff, Thomas Nicolai) - Building Spaces for Hyperlocal Citizen Journalism
(Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, Barry Saunders) - Google Yourself! Measuring the Performance of Personalised Information Resources
(Lars Kirchhoff, Thomas Nicolai, Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, Barry Saunders) - Closed, Open or In-between? The Politics, Economics and Pragmatics of Academic Publishing
(Panel with Axel Bruns, Lisa McLaughlin, Colin Sparks, and Jason Wilson)
After the conference, I'm going to swing down into Germany for a further few events (more on these at Produsage.org). I'll present a guest lecture at the Hans-Bredow-Institut in Hamburg on 20 October, and a keynote at the conference "Das Internet zwischen egalitärer Teilhabe und ökonomischer Vermachtung" ("The Internet between Egalitarian Participation and Economic Power") in Gießen on 24 October. Both those talks will be in German, and both explore further aspects and implications of the produsage concept.
- 'Anyone Can Edit': Vom Nutzer zum Produtzer
(Hans-Bredow-Institut, Hörsaal C im Hauptgebäude der Universität Hamburg, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Hamburg - Monday 20 Oct. 2008, 6-8 p.m.) - Blogs und Bürgerjournalismus - öffentliches Nachrichtenforum oder Startpunkt für neue politische Bewegungen?
(Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Margarete-Bieber-Saal, Ludwigstr. 34, Gießen - Saturday 24 Oct. 2008, 11-1.30 p.m.)
And finally, a little further down the track - and very much worth a post in its own right when I get around to it -, I've been invited to speak at the Australasian Media & Broadcasting Congress in Sydney on 25-27 November 2008. My talk "Disruption 2.0: Broadcast versus Social Media" builds on my recent article on television as an inferior form of streaming media in Media International Australia; and it'll be interesting to see the reactions to this a such a very high-powered (and expensive) conference of media executives...
That's all for now - see you on the road!
