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Snurb — Thursday 20 April 2006 18:14

Sad-Looking Link Cloud

It's been a busy week with progress on various fronts - but no specific news as yet (this will change by tomorrow, hopefully). So, instead of a blow-by-blow update of what's been happening, here's a quick link cloud of my recent del.icio.us bookmarks for your enjoyment... To be expanded in due course!

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Snurb — Sunday 16 April 2006 14:54

The Real Simpsons

Television |

Some people have too much time on their hands. Via YouTube:

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Snurb — Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:29

New Creative Industries Projects for Ipskay


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Snurb — Monday 10 April 2006 23:22

Back from the Hill

Politics | Creative Industries |

"I'm writing this on the plane back from Canberra," I was going to write, "where I've spent the last couple of days hobnobbing with the high and mighty." That was two weeks ago, but of course on the plane back I promptly fell asleep, not so much from hobnobbing but simply from a packed two-day programme which had started with a 5.15 a.m. flight out of Brisbane on Tuesday 28 March. So, here's a belated follow-up on my trip to the "Expanding Horizons" event which the Council for the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences had organised...

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Snurb — Sunday 2 April 2006 16:25

Research

Research Projects |

My current work focusses on the study of public communication in social media spaces, its implications for our understanding of the contemporary public sphere, and on the development of new research methodologies and conceptual frameworks for such research. I have developed the concept of gatewatching to describe the processes by which bloggers and social media users interact with and curate the news, and I continue to investigate alternative and emerging forms of journalistic practice and news engagement; and I coined the term produsage to better describe the current paradigm shift towards user-led forms of collaborative content creation which are proving to have an increasing impact on media, economy, law, social practices, and democracy itself. My major current and recent research projects and centres include:

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Snurb — Sunday 2 April 2006 15:22

Blogs and Blogging

Blogs and Blogging | Research Projects | Teaching with Technology |

Key Publications:

  • Book: [weblink:158] (New York: Peter Lang, 2008), eds. Axel Bruns & Joanne Jacobs

Research Projects:

  • Mapping the Australian political blogosphere
  • Participatory Journalism and Citizen Engagement
  • Youdecide2007.org

Related Topics:

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Snurb — Sunday 2 April 2006 13:47

edgeX - Mapping the Missing Grassroots

edgeX is a research project funded by the Australian Research Council under the ARC Linkage programme. It was developed by Liz Ferrier (UQ Ipswich) and myself; the other chief investigators in the team are Jo Tacchi (QUT), Dave Rooney and Phil Graham (UQ Ipswich), and our postdoctoral research Sal Humphreys. Our industry partner for the project is the Ipswich City Council. The official ARC title for this research project is "Mapping the Missing Grassroots: Ethnographic Action Study of Local Grassroots Broadband Content (Co-) Creation and Consumption", and the project officially commenced at the start of 2006.

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Snurb — Saturday 25 March 2006 23:35

Some Alternatives to Endnote and CiteULike

At the beginning of this week I posted a question about alternatives to Endnote and other bibliographic tools on the Association of Internet Researchers list, as well as on my blog. There response from my peers has been very strong, with a number of options emerging. As a reminder, what I was especially keen on were tools which would allow me to store multiple quotations against a single source - something Endnote isn't very good at at all. Some people did suggest adding quotes into a customised notes field within Endnote, but I don't feel that this is a very effective solution; someone also suggested storing references and quotations simply in a Word document, which is in fact what I did with the research for my book [weblink:28], but that's probably not a sustainable option in the long term - good tag, search and filter functionality would be very welcome. Another generic alternative would be to use a blog for storing references, but this means that you have to be connected to add new items, and (unless there's a conversion script available) also doesn't offer functionality for formatting references in different bibliographic styles.

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Snurb — Saturday 25 March 2006 11:32

Entering the Political Arena

I've been invited to take part in a two-day event in Canberra this coming week, organised by the Council for Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS) - they're inviting early-career researchers (a definition which I'm slowly starting to slide out of) to talk to politicians about their research in order to better inform members of the legislative about current research agendas and the need for policies which address these aims and build on the findings.

As part of the 'Expanding Horizons' programme, we'll have breakfast with Julie Bishop, the Federal Minister for Education, Science and Training, morning tea with the Lindsay Tanner, Shadow Minister for Finance, and will then pair off to meet selected parliamentarians for more private meetings - I've been selected to talk to Senator George Campbell, the Oppositiom Whip. Along the way, we'll also hear from a variety of other high-profile politicians, researchers, and other officeholders in the nexus between education, research, and politics. Should be an interesting (and exhausting) programme!

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Snurb — Friday 24 March 2006 04:23

Where Are All the WYSIWYG Blog Clients?

This Site | Blogs and Blogging |

I made the move to Firefox over the last few days, and as a result I've been exploring the wealth of Firefox extensions which is also available. One of them is Performancing, which adds a basic WYSIWYG offline editor for blog posts to Firefox - and this in turn brought me to look more widely at the current state of blog clients: software which enables the offline writing and editing of blog posts for later submission to a blog, using a standard XML-RPC interface. Unfortunately - especially as far as real WYSIWYG editing is concerned (as opposed to editing plain text with a few HTML tags thrown in) -, there still isn't that much out there. I did find at least a couple of promising options, though.

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Recent Work

Presentations and Talks

Beyond Interaction Networks: An Introduction to Practice Mapping (ACSPRI 2024)

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Books, Papers, Articles

Untangling the Furball: A Practice Mapping Approach to the Analysis of Multimodal Interactions in Social Networks (Social Media + Society)

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Inside the Moral Panic at Australia's 'First of Its Kind' Summit about Kids on Social Media (Crikey)

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Brightest before Dawn (CD, 2011)

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Gatewatching and News Curation: The Lecture Series

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