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Snurb — Monday 13 November 2006 00:34

Spreading the Memes

Produsers and Produsage | Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | ATOM2006 | Publications |

Over the past few years, I've created a few neologisms - terms such as 'gatewatching', 'newssharing', and of course 'produser' and 'produsage'. While some might frown on this (hi, Jean), in my view it's absolutely necessary for researchers to abandon traditional terminology when it becomes overly limiting, and obscures important new features of their objects of study. So, for example, the traditional journalistic process of gatekeeping is giving way to a new mode of gatewatching in news production; for journalists and other news commentators this is "a shift from the watchdog to the 'guidedog'" role, as Jo Bardoel and Mark Deuze have put it.

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Snurb — Thursday 9 November 2006 19:40

Call for Papers: International Journal of Communications Law and Policy

Internet Technologies | Intellectual Property | AoIR 2006 | Publications |

I've been meaning to post this for a while - a call for papers for the International Journal of Communications Law and Policy that's related to the Association of Internet Researchers conference I organised in September. For those who weren't able to make it to AoIR 2006, there's still some time to submit additional articles...

The International Journal of Communications Law and Policy and the Association of Internet Researchers is pleased to announce a call for further papers for a special issue on Internet regulation linked to the IR7 Conference ('Internet Convergences'). The selection committee - composed of the editorial …

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Snurb — Tuesday 5 September 2006 18:25

Meikle on Gatewatching

Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | Publications |

My colleague Graham Meikle from Macquarie University, author of the fabulous Future Active: Media Activism and the Internet, has just let me know that his review of my book [weblink:28] will be published in the next issue of Media International Australia. He's kindly allowed me to republish his review here - many thanks, Graham!

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Snurb — Wednesday 12 July 2006 01:20

Wikinews Gets Scanned

Gatewatching and Citizen Journalism | AoIR 2005 | Wikinews | Wikipedia | Publications |

I'm very happy to report that an update of my paper from last year's AolR conference, "Wikinews: The Next Generation of Online News?", has now been published as the lead article in Scan Journal. I was able to find some more recent statistics, which unfortunately confirm the trends I'd already seen at the end of 2005: Wikinews is stagnating, both in terms of new contributors and as far as content creation is concerned. In my opinion, this is due to a misinterpretation of the Neutral Point of View doctrine, which here leads to a counterproductive aversion to any kind of discussion of news and current events. (And let me be absolutely clear: I'm not arguing against NPOV as such here - Wikipedia's current events section does very good work covering the news, for example, so it can work very well in a news context.) Anyway - read the article in Scan Journal! Here's the issue announcement by editors Chris Atton and Graham Meikle:

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Snurb — Monday 29 May 2006 15:05

Books, Papers, Articles, and Reports

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    • Social Media, Network Mapping, and Visualisation
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    • New Media and/in Education
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Snurb — Monday 29 May 2006 15:04

Presentations and Talks

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  • Gatewatching, News Curation, Journalism
  • Social Media
  • Produsers and Produsage
  • Crisis Communication
  • Government and Democracy
  • Internet Technologies
  • New Media Education

 

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Snurb — Tuesday 23 May 2006 00:30

From Gatewatching to Produsage

Produsers and Produsage | Publications |

Well, it's always nice if things have good timing. The other day I found two letters from my publisher Peter Lang in the mail: one, from the Switzerland office, was a royalty cheque for [weblink:28] - we've sold over a quarter of the first print run already, even though reviews are only just starting to appear. I was tempted to have it framed - but then, it is an actual cheque... The other was a letter from the New York office, with the contract for the next book, which currently has the working title [weblink:475]. Due in mid-2007, it continues my work on [weblink:453], and provides a guide to the landscape of produsage across a wide variety of domains.

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Snurb — Monday 22 May 2006 16:35

Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage - Chapter Outline

Produsers and Produsage | Publications |

Externalised 2We the users turned creators and distributors of content are TIME's Person of the Year 2006, and AdAge's advertising agency of the year. We form a new Generation C. We have MySpace, YouTube, and OurMedia; we run social software, and drive the development of Web 2.0. But beyond the hype, what's really going on?

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Snurb — Monday 22 May 2006 15:52

Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage

Produsers and Produsage | Publications |

Externalised 2We the users turned creators and distributors of content are TIME's Person of the Year 2006, and AdAge's advertising agency of the year. We form a new Generation C. We have MySpace, YouTube, and OurMedia; we run social software, and drive the development of Web 2.0. But beyond the hype, what's really going on?

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Snurb — Tuesday 25 April 2006 10:05

Uses of Blogs Goes to the Printer

Blogs and Blogging | Publications |

Uses of BlogsI'm very happy to report that [weblink:158], which Joanne Jacobs and I have edited for Peter Lang, is about to go to the printers. One of the last things we've signed off on now is the book cover, based on an idea by Jo and me and produced with the assistance of ACID's Gavin Winter, who took the photo of the Rode microphone - here's a preview. There's probably no need to explain this, but of course the advancing phalanx of microphones in the image is symbolic for the multiplication and amplification of voices in and through the blogosphere - every blogger has their own soapbox, talk-back show, stage, or public lecture event now.

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