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Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism

Snurb — Friday 22 April 2005 14:32

Little Bundles of Joy Arriving and Departing

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I spent most of yesterday working on the final draft of my book Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production. The proofread manuscript arrived back from Peter Lang in New York earlier this week, and so I went through the thing one last time to apply the requested changes - nothing too serious (a few last remnants of Australian spelling and a few minor formatting issues), but a fairly tedious and time-consuming process nonetheless. Had to change printers at the last minute as well as the one in my office developed an annoying smudging problem, but finally now the whole lot is printed (and Peter Lang will scan these pages for printing the book) and the completed package has started the return journey around the world. According to Fedex it should arrive there in ten hours, and if all goes well this would mean the book can go to the printers this coming week!

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Snurb — Monday 11 April 2005 10:31

OLO Article Posted

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Well, my article for Online Opinion is, erm, online now, retitled "Online 'Produsers' Dish Up the News". (It was first posted here as [weblink:164].) Look forward to seeing the comments.

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Snurb — Wednesday 22 September 2004 10:28

Cyberactive Resistance?

Produsage Communities | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Intellectual Property | AoIR 2004 | Conferences |

The next (and last for this conference) session is about to begin, titled simply 'resistance?' Still a good turnout for the session even though people are now starting to leave the University of Sussex to catch their various planes. Andrew Ó Baoill starts this session with a study of MoveOn.org, a political group which started in 1998 around the Clinton impeachment campaign and enables participation in political action by members of the public.

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Snurb — Tuesday 21 September 2004 14:30

Back in Blog

Produsage Communities | Blogs and Blogging | Mobile and Wireless Technologies | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | AoIR 2004 | New Media Arts | Conferences |

Back after lunch now, and we're in the next session on blogs and related media forms. Karen Gustafson makes the start, speaking on blogs and the creation of community, especially on political blog sites. She has selected four high-ranking political blogs to study, including Instapundit and others. They have a range of ideological positions and are themselves influential amongst blogs. However, this is of course a very narrow subset of all blogs.

Common discourses around blogs include the idea of an emergence of public spheres, but also a conceptualisation of blogs as symptoms of fragmentation. They are an important addition …

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Snurb — Monday 20 September 2004 08:36

Bloggers Unite

Produsage Communities | Blogs and Blogging | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | AoIR 2004 | Conferences |

Yay, I've run into a fellow blogger, Lilia Efimova (and we've commiserated about not being able to do live blogging of this conference, in the absence of direct Internet access). Interesting to discuss approaches to coping with this.

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Snurb — Friday 21 May 2004 13:16

We Media and much more

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Finally worked my way through the very useful report We Media by Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis at the Media Center at the American Press Institute. A good overview of what they term participatory journalism, with many connections to my own research. From this report, several further references also need investigation:

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Snurb — Wednesday 21 April 2004 13:06

The News, One Entry at a Time

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A new Wired about the rise of blogging approaches to news reporting: The News, One Entry at a Time. Might be time to pull together all of these individual reports into a greater whole...

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Snurb — Wednesday 31 March 2004 12:11

We are (Kuro)sheep ?

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Always interesting to read the meta-discussions about Kuro5hin at Kuro5hin. As a site which seems to have been developed in good part in response to perceived shortcomings at Slashdot, there's still a fair bit of debate about what this site is or should be...
Not quite sure about the title We are sheep, though.

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Snurb — Wednesday 31 March 2004 11:57

PeopleAggregator - An Open Source Social Network

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Looks like I need to work this one into my book as well - probably in the chapter on syndication and RDFs. Not especially news-related, but I feel that many of these technologies will be increasingly interconnected as they mature... From Slashdot: PeopleAggregator - An Open Source Social Network - a story about the latest open source p2p social network engine.

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Snurb — Monday 29 March 2004 13:39

Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production - Chapter Outline

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GatewatchingGatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production provides the first comprehensive study of the latest wave of online news publications. It investigates the collaborative publishing models of key news Websites ranging from the worldwide Indymedia network to the massively successful technology news site Slashdot and further to the multitude of Weblogs which have emerged in recent years. Building on collaborative approaches borrowed from the open source software development community, gatewatching provides an alternative to gatekeeping and other traditional journalistic models of reporting, and has enabled millions of users around the world to participate in the online news publishing process.

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