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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 — Sunday 1 May 2011 23:06

Gatekeeping, Gatewatching, Echtzeitfeedback: Neue Herausforderungen für den Journalismus (University of Vienna 2011)

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Gatekeeping, Gatewatching, Echtzeitfeedback: Neue Herausforderungen für den Journalismus

Axel Bruns

  • 9 May 2011 – Guest lecture at the University of Vienna
Gatekeeping, Gatewatching, Echtzeitfeedback: Neue Herausforderungen für den Journalismus

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Wie Blogger und andere unabhängige Kommentatoren im Netz den herkömmlichen Journalismus kritisieren, korrigieren, und anderweitig herausfordern, ist bereits seit Jahren bekannt, aber noch längst nicht von allen Journalisten verinnerlicht worden; noch immer flammen die Feindseligkeiten zwischen dem Medienestablishment und der neuen Generation von Webseiten gelegentlich wieder auf. Das alte Gatekeeping-Monopol der Massenmedien wird dabei durch die neue Praxis des Gatewatching infragegestellt: von einzelnen Bloggern und Communities von Kommentatoren, die zwar selbst nicht viel Neues berichten, dabei aber die Nachrichten und sonstige Informationen offizieller Quellen neu zusammenstellen und bewerten und so einen wichtigen Dienst leisten. Und dies geschieht nun auch noch immer schneller, geradezu in Echtzeit: über neueste soziale Netzwerke, die in Minutenschnelle Nachrichten weiterleiten, kommentieren, hinterfragen, oder widerlegen können, und über zusätzliche Plattformen, die schnelle und effektive Ad-Hoc-Zusammenarbeit möglich machen. Wenn hunderte Freiwilliger innerhalb weniger Tage einen deutschen Minister des schweren Plagiats überführen können, wenn die Welt von Erdbeben und Tsunamis zuerst per Twitter erfährt: wie kommt der Journalismus da noch mit?

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Snurb — Sunday 1 May 2011 22:59

Tracking Crises on Twitter: Analysing #qldfloods and #eqnz (EMPA 2011)

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EMPA 2011

Tracking Crises on Twitter: Analysing #qldfloods and #eqnz

Axel Bruns

  • 12 Apr. 2011 – Emergency Media and Public Affairs conference, Canberra
Tracking Crises on Twitter: Analysing #qldfloods and #eqnz

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Social media platforms including Facebook and Twitter have now emerged as important
additions to the arsenal of crisis communications tools – connecting emergency services
and mainstream media sources with affected citizens on the ground as well as onlookers
from further afield, and functioning also as a backchannel which can be used to send
feedback and requests to the authorities. This paper presents a close analysis of recent
events such as the Queensland floods and the Christchurch earthquake to provide important
insights into the way Twitter was used during these disasters, as well as outlining
approaches to tracking social media activities during future crisis events.

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Snurb — Sunday 1 May 2011 22:58

Social Media Use in the Queensland Floods (Eidos 2011)

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Eidos 2011

Social Media Use in the Queensland Floods

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Kate Crawford, and Frances Shaw

  • 4 Apr. 2011 – Eidos Institute “Social Media in Times of Crisis” symposium, Brisbane
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Snurb — Monday 29 March 2004 13:26

Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere

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