Jason A. Wilson

“Preditors” : making citizen journalism work (2009)

As interest grows in “citizen journalism” and user-generated news content, parallel forms of professional practice are emerging among those charged with facilitating amateur news production. But...

“Preditors” : making citizen journalism work (2009)

As interest grows in “citizen journalism” and user-generated news content, parallel forms of professional practice are emerging among those charged with facilitating amateur news production. But...

Citizen journalism as social networking : reporting the 2007 Australian Federal Election (2009)

As interest grows in “citizen journalism” and user-generated news content, parallel forms of professional practice are emerging among those charged with facilitating amateur news production. But...

Citizen journalism as social networking : reporting the 2007 Australian Federal Election (2009)

One of the perceived Achilles heels of online citizen journalism is its perceived inability to conduct investigative and first-hand reporting. A number of projects have recently addressed this...

“Preditors” : making citizen journalism work (2009)

One of the perceived Achilles heels of online citizen journalism is its perceived inability to conduct investigative and first-hand reporting. A number of projects have recently addressed this...

Citizen journalism as social networking : reporting the 2007 Australian Federal Election (2009)

As interest grows in “citizen journalism” and user-generated news content, parallel forms of professional practice are emerging among those charged with facilitating amateur news production. But...

Social Innovation, User-Created Content and the Future of the ABC and SBS as Public Service Media : Submission to Review of National Broadcasting (ABC and SBS), Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. (2008)

One of the perceived Achilles heels of online citizen journalism is its perceived inability to conduct investigative and first-hand reporting. A number of projects have recently addressed this...

Flew, Terry, Cunningham, Stuart D., Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A.

This submission to the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy’s public inquiry into the future of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the Special Broadcasting...

Citizen journalism and political participation : the youdecide project and the 2007 Australian Federal Election (2008)

Journalism as Social Networking: The Australian youdecide project and the 2007 Federal election (2008)

The 2007 Australian Federal election not only saw the election of a Labor government after 11 years of John Howard’s conservative Coalition government. It also saw new levels of political...

Journalism as Social Networking: The Australian youdecide project and the 2007 Federal election (2008)

The increasing prevalence of new media technologies and the rise of citizen journalism has coincided with a crisis in industrial journalism –as the figure of the "journalist as hero" is fading, new...

The increasing prevalence of new media technologies and the rise of citizen journalism has coincided with a crisis in industrial journalism –as the figure of the "journalist as hero" is fading, new...

Discussion Paper: Network and Concept Maps for the Blogosphere (2008)

On Saturday night the story broke about two Victorian Liberal Party staffers who had been sacked for blogging. Needless to say, they weren't using the blog to share recipes or post pictures of their...

Bruns, Axel, Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J.

While qualitative evidence for the networked patterns of discussion, debate, and deliberation in the blogosphere is readily available, it is more difficult to establish a solid quantitative picture...

Discussion Paper: Network and Concept Maps for the Blogosphere (2008)

On Saturday night the story broke about two Victorian Liberal Party staffers who had been sacked for blogging. Needless to say, they weren't using the blog to share recipes or post pictures of their...

Bruns, Axel, Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J.

While qualitative evidence for the networked patterns of discussion, debate, and deliberation in the blogosphere is readily available, it is more difficult to establish a solid quantitative picture...

Although there is great interest in citizen journalism services that harness user-generated content, the continuing contribution of professional staff who coordinate such efforts is often overlooked....

The blogosphere and online independent media certainly proved themselves capable of offering an outstanding alternative narrative of last year's federal election. In several pieces during the...

The blogosphere and online independent media certainly proved themselves capable of offering an outstanding alternative narrative of last year's federal election. In several pieces during the...

It’s almost a cliche now to assert that the US blogosphere is an election-cycle ahead of what we have in Australia. We’re not so sure it’s that simple, mostly because it seems that online,...

It’s almost a cliche now to assert that the US blogosphere is an election-cycle ahead of what we have in Australia.We’re not so sure it’s that simple, mostly because it seems that online,...

Though we often give the print media a hard time here at Club Bloggery, we’re not so sanguine about the end of the iconic magazine, The Bulletin, last month. Despite its virulently racist origins,...

Though we often give the print media a hard time here at Club Bloggery, we’re not so sanguine about the end of the iconic magazine, The Bulletin, last month. Despite its virulently racist origins,...

The blogosphere and online independent media certainly proved themselves capable of offering an outstanding alternative narrative of last year's federal election. In several pieces during the...

It’s almost a cliche now to assert that the US blogosphere is an election-cycle ahead of what we have in Australia. We’re not so sure it’s that simple, mostly because it seems that online,...

Though we often give the print media a hard time here at Club Bloggery, we’re not so sanguine about the end of the iconic magazine, The Bulletin, last month. Despite its virulently racist origins,...

Many of the dust-ups so far between bloggers and the mainstream media (MSM) in Australia have concerned comment, not news. The kinds of spats we’ve written about previously have been over who...

Locating the Australian Blogosphere: Towards a New Research Methodology (2008)

Many of the dust-ups so far between bloggers and the mainstream media (MSM) in Australia have concerned comment, not news. The kinds of spats we’ve written about previously have been over who...

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written about the potential impact of the blogosphere on future patterns of global, national, and local public communication; blogs and other forms of distributed, networked, non-mass...

Citizen Journalism and Political participation: The Youdecide project and the 2007 Australian Federal Election (2008)

Google Yourself! Measuring the performance of personalized information resources (2008)

The 2007 Australian Federal election not only saw the election of a Labor government after 11 years of John Howard's conservative Coalition government. It also saw new levels of political engagement...

Nicolai, Thomas, Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J.

Narcissism is generally perceived as a growing social phenomenon in our society (Kopelman 1984; Mullins et al. 1984; Nelson 1977), as Lasch puts in his widely cited book "Culture of Narcissism"...

Building Spaces for Hyperlocal Citizen Journalism (2008)

Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election (2008)

One of the perceived Achilles heels of online citizen journalism is its perceived inability to conduct investigative and first-hand reporting. A number of projects have recently addressed this...

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Australian political bloggers and citizen journalists appear to have played an important role in the 2007 federal elections. They provided a highly critical corrective to mainstream journalism,...

Many of the dust-ups so far between bloggers and the mainstream media (MSM) in Australia have concerned comment, not news. The kinds of spats we’ve written about previously have been over who...

Many of the dust-ups so far between bloggers and the mainstream media (MSM) in Australia have concerned comment, not news. The kinds of spats we’ve written about previously have been over who...

The blogosphere and online independent media certainly proved themselves capable of offering an outstanding alternative narrative of last year's federal election. In several pieces during the...

It’s almost a cliche now to assert that the US blogosphere is an election-cycle ahead of what we have in Australia. We’re not so sure it’s that simple, mostly because it seems that online,...

Locating the Australian Blogosphere: Towards a New Research Methodology (2008)

Though we often give the print media a hard time here at Club Bloggery, we’re not so sanguine about the end of the iconic magazine, The Bulletin, last month. Despite its virulently racist origins,...

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written about the potential impact of the blogosphere on future patterns of global, national, and local public communication; blogs and other forms of distributed, networked, non-mass...

Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 (2008)

Axel Bruns, Jason A. Wilson, Barry J. Saunders, Lars Kirchhoff, Thomas Nicolai

Australian political bloggers and citizen journalists appear to have played an important role in the campaign leading up to the 24 November 2007 federal election. They provided a highly critical...

Locating the Australian Blogosphere: Towards a New Research Methodology (2008)

Axel Bruns, Jason A. Wilson, Barry J. Saunders, Timothy J. Highfield, Lars Kirchhoff, Thomas Nicolai

Much has been written about the potential impact of the blogosphere on future patterns of global, national, and local public communication; blogs and other forms of distributed, networked, non-mass...

Discussion Paper: Network and Concept Maps for the Blogosphere (2008)

On Saturday night the story broke about two Victorian Liberal Party staffers who had been sacked for blogging. Needless to say, they weren't using the blog to share recipes or post pictures of their...

Bruns, Axel, Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J.

While qualitative evidence for the networked patterns of discussion, debate, and deliberation in the blogosphere is readily available, it is more difficult to establish a solid quantitative picture...

Citizen Journalism and Political participation: The Youdecide project and the 2007 Australian Federal Election (2008)

Journalism as Social Networking: The Australian youdecide project and the 2007 Federal election (2008)

The 2007 Australian Federal election not only saw the election of a Labor government after 11 years of John Howard's conservative Coalition government. It also saw new levels of political engagement...

Google Yourself! Measuring the performance of personalized information resources (2008)

The increasing prevalence of new media technologies and the rise of citizen journalism has coincided with a crisis in industrial journalism –as the figure of the "journalist as hero" is fading, new...

Nicolai, Thomas, Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J.

Narcissism is generally perceived as a growing social phenomenon in our society (Kopelman 1984; Mullins et al. 1984; Nelson 1977), as Lasch puts in his widely cited book "Culture of Narcissism"...

Building Spaces for Hyperlocal Citizen Journalism (2008)

Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election (2008)

One of the perceived Achilles heels of online citizen journalism is its perceived inability to conduct investigative and first-hand reporting. A number of projects have recently addressed this...

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Australian political bloggers and citizen journalists appear to have played an important role in the 2007 federal elections. They provided a highly critical corrective to mainstream journalism,...

Locating the Australian Blogosphere: Towards a New Research Methodology (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written about the potential impact of the blogosphere on future patterns of global, national, and local public communication; blogs and other forms of distributed, networked, non-mass...

Citizen Journalism and Political participation: The Youdecide project and the 2007 Australian Federal Election (2008)

Google Yourself! Measuring the performance of personalized information resources (2008)

The 2007 Australian Federal election not only saw the election of a Labor government after 11 years of John Howard's conservative Coalition government. It also saw new levels of political engagement...

Nicolai, Thomas, Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J.

Narcissism is generally perceived as a growing social phenomenon in our society (Kopelman 1984; Mullins et al. 1984; Nelson 1977), as Lasch puts in his widely cited book "Culture of Narcissism"...

Building Spaces for Hyperlocal Citizen Journalism (2008)

Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election (2008)

One of the perceived Achilles heels of online citizen journalism is its perceived inability to conduct investigative and first-hand reporting. A number of projects have recently addressed this...

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Australian political bloggers and citizen journalists appear to have played an important role in the 2007 federal elections. They provided a highly critical corrective to mainstream journalism,...

Locating the Australian Blogosphere: Towards a New Research Methodology (2008)

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written about the potential impact of the blogosphere on future patterns of global, national, and local public communication; blogs and other forms of distributed, networked, non-mass...

Discussion Paper: Network and Concept Maps for the Blogosphere (2008)

On Saturday night the story broke about two Victorian Liberal Party staffers who had been sacked for blogging. Needless to say, they weren't using the blog to share recipes or post pictures of their...

Bruns, Axel, Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J.

While qualitative evidence for the networked patterns of discussion, debate, and deliberation in the blogosphere is readily available, it is more difficult to establish a solid quantitative picture...

Citizen Journalism and Political participation: The Youdecide project and the 2007 Australian Federal Election (2008)

Journalism as Social Networking: The Australian youdecide project and the 2007 Federal election (2008)

The 2007 Australian Federal election not only saw the election of a Labor government after 11 years of John Howard's conservative Coalition government. It also saw new levels of political engagement...

Google Yourself! Measuring the performance of personalized information resources (2008)

The increasing prevalence of new media technologies and the rise of citizen journalism has coincided with a crisis in industrial journalism –as the figure of the "journalist as hero" is fading, new...

Nicolai, Thomas, Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J.

Narcissism is generally perceived as a growing social phenomenon in our society (Kopelman 1984; Mullins et al. 1984; Nelson 1977), as Lasch puts in his widely cited book "Culture of Narcissism"...

Building Spaces for Hyperlocal Citizen Journalism (2008)

Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election (2008)

One of the perceived Achilles heels of online citizen journalism is its perceived inability to conduct investigative and first-hand reporting. A number of projects have recently addressed this...

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Australian political bloggers and citizen journalists appear to have played an important role in the 2007 federal elections. They provided a highly critical corrective to mainstream journalism,...

Many of the dust-ups so far between bloggers and the mainstream media (MSM) in Australia have concerned comment, not news. The kinds of spats we’ve written about previously have been over who...

The blogosphere and online independent media certainly proved themselves capable of offering an outstanding alternative narrative of last year's federal election. In several pieces during the...

It’s almost a cliche now to assert that the US blogosphere is an election-cycle ahead of what we have in Australia. We’re not so sure it’s that simple, mostly because it seems that online,...

Flew, Terry and Cunningham, Stuart D. and Bruns, Axel and Wilson, Jason A. (2008) Social Innovation, User-Created Content and the Future of the ABC and SBS as Public Service Media Submission to Review of National Broadcasting (ABC and SBS), Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. Government Report. (2008)

Though we often give the print media a hard time here at Club Bloggery, we’re not so sanguine about the end of the iconic magazine, The Bulletin, last month. Despite its virulently racist origins,...

Flew, Terry, Cunningham, Stuart D., Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A.

This submission to the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy’s public inquiry into the future of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the Special Broadcasting...

Many of the dust-ups so far between bloggers and the mainstream media (MSM) in Australia have concerned comment, not news. The kinds of spats we’ve written about previously have been over who...

The blogosphere and online independent media certainly proved themselves capable of offering an outstanding alternative narrative of last year's federal election. In several pieces during the...

It’s almost a cliche now to assert that the US blogosphere is an election-cycle ahead of what we have in Australia. We’re not so sure it’s that simple, mostly because it seems that online,...

Locating the Australian Blogosphere: Towards a New Research Methodology (2008)

Though we often give the print media a hard time here at Club Bloggery, we’re not so sanguine about the end of the iconic magazine, The Bulletin, last month. Despite its virulently racist origins,...

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written about the potential impact of the blogosphere on future patterns of global, national, and local public communication; blogs and other forms of distributed, networked, non-mass...

Discussion Paper: Network and Concept Maps for the Blogosphere (2008)

On Saturday night the story broke about two Victorian Liberal Party staffers who had been sacked for blogging. Needless to say, they weren't using the blog to share recipes or post pictures of their...

Bruns, Axel, Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J.

While qualitative evidence for the networked patterns of discussion, debate, and deliberation in the blogosphere is readily available, it is more difficult to establish a solid quantitative picture...

Citizen Journalism and Political participation: The Youdecide project and the 2007 Australian Federal Election (2008)

Journalism as Social Networking: The Australian youdecide project and the 2007 Federal election (2008)

The 2007 Australian Federal election not only saw the election of a Labor government after 11 years of John Howard's conservative Coalition government. It also saw new levels of political engagement...

Google Yourself! Measuring the performance of personalized information resources (2008)

The increasing prevalence of new media technologies and the rise of citizen journalism has coincided with a crisis in industrial journalism –as the figure of the "journalist as hero" is fading, new...

Nicolai, Thomas, Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J.

Narcissism is generally perceived as a growing social phenomenon in our society (Kopelman 1984; Mullins et al. 1984; Nelson 1977), as Lasch puts in his widely cited book "Culture of Narcissism"...

Building Spaces for Hyperlocal Citizen Journalism (2008)

Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election (2008)

One of the perceived Achilles heels of online citizen journalism is its perceived inability to conduct investigative and first-hand reporting. A number of projects have recently addressed this...

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Australian political bloggers and citizen journalists appear to have played an important role in the 2007 federal elections. They provided a highly critical corrective to mainstream journalism,...

Flew, Terry and Cunningham, Stuart D. and Bruns, Axel and Wilson, Jason A. (2008) Social Innovation, User-Created Content and the Future of the ABC and SBS as Public Service Media Submission to Review of National Broadcasting (ABC and SBS), Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. Government Report. (2008)

Flew, Terry, Cunningham, Stuart D., Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A.

This submission to the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy’s public inquiry into the future of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the Special Broadcasting...

Although there is great interest in citizen journalism services that harness user-generated content, the continuing contribution of professional staff who coordinate such efforts is often overlooked....

Many of the dust-ups so far between bloggers and the mainstream media (MSM) in Australia have concerned comment, not news. The kinds of spats we've written about previously have been over who exactly...

The blogosphere and online independent media certainly proved themselves capable of offering an outstanding alternative narrative of last year's federal election. In several pieces during the...

It's almost a cliche now to assert that the US blogosphere is an election-cycle ahead of what we have in Australia. We're not so sure it's that simple, mostly because it seems that online,...

Locating the Australian Blogosphere: Towards a New Research Methodology (2008)

Though we often give the print media a hard time here at Club Bloggery, we're not so sanguine about the end of the iconic magazine, The Bulletin, last month. Despite its virulently racist origins,...

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written about the potential impact of the blogosphere on future patterns of global, national, and local public communication; blogs and other forms of distributed, networked, non-mass...

Discussion Paper: Network and Concept Maps for the Blogosphere (2008)

On Saturday night the story broke about two Victorian Liberal Party staffers who had been sacked for blogging. Needless to say, they weren't using the blog to share recipes or post pictures of their...

Bruns, Axel, Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J.

While qualitative evidence for the networked patterns of discussion, debate, and deliberation in the blogosphere is readily available, it is more difficult to establish a solid quantitative picture...

Citizen Journalism and Political participation: The Youdecide project and the 2007 Australian Federal Election (2008)

Journalism as Social Networking: The Australian youdecide project and the 2007 Federal election (2008)

The 2007 Australian Federal election not only saw the election of a Labor government after 11 years of John Howard's conservative Coalition government. It also saw new levels of political engagement...

Building Spaces for Hyperlocal Citizen Journalism (2008)

The increasing prevalence of new media technologies and the rise of citizen journalism has coincided with a crisis in industrial journalism -as the figure of the "journalist as hero" is fading, new...

Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election (2008)

One of the perceived Achilles heels of online citizen journalism is its perceived inability to conduct investigative and first-hand reporting. A number of projects have recently addressed this...

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Australian political bloggers and citizen journalists appear to have played an important role in the 2007 federal elections. They provided a highly critical corrective to mainstream journalism,...

Social Innovation, User-Created Content and the Future of the ABC and SBS as Public Service Media : Submission to Review of National Broadcasting (ABC and SBS), Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. (2008)

Flew, Terry, Cunningham, Stuart D., Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A.

This submission to the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy’s public inquiry into the future of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the Special Broadcasting...

Although there is great interest in citizen journalism services that harness user-generated content, the continuing contribution of professional staff who coordinate such efforts is often overlooked....

Many of the dust-ups so far between bloggers and the mainstream media (MSM) in Australia have concerned comment, not news. The kinds of spats we’ve written about previously have been over who...

The blogosphere and online independent media certainly proved themselves capable of offering an outstanding alternative narrative of last year's federal election. In several pieces during the...

It’s almost a cliche now to assert that the US blogosphere is an election-cycle ahead of what we have in Australia. We’re not so sure it’s that simple, mostly because it seems that online,...

Locating the Australian Blogosphere: Towards a New Research Methodology (2008)

Though we often give the print media a hard time here at Club Bloggery, we’re not so sanguine about the end of the iconic magazine, The Bulletin, last month. Despite its virulently racist origins,...

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written about the potential impact of the blogosphere on future patterns of global, national, and local public communication; blogs and other forms of distributed, networked, non-mass...

Discussion Paper: Network and Concept Maps for the Blogosphere (2008)

On Saturday night the story broke about two Victorian Liberal Party staffers who had been sacked for blogging. Needless to say, they weren't using the blog to share recipes or post pictures of their...

Bruns, Axel, Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J.

While qualitative evidence for the networked patterns of discussion, debate, and deliberation in the blogosphere is readily available, it is more difficult to establish a solid quantitative picture...

Citizen Journalism and Political participation: The Youdecide project and the 2007 Australian Federal Election (2008)

Journalism as Social Networking: The Australian youdecide project and the 2007 Federal election (2008)

The 2007 Australian Federal election not only saw the election of a Labor government after 11 years of John Howard's conservative Coalition government. It also saw new levels of political engagement...

Google Yourself! Measuring the performance of personalized information resources (2008)

The increasing prevalence of new media technologies and the rise of citizen journalism has coincided with a crisis in industrial journalism –as the figure of the "journalist as hero" is fading, new...

Nicolai, Thomas, Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J.

Narcissism is generally perceived as a growing social phenomenon in our society (Kopelman 1984; Mullins et al. 1984; Nelson 1977), as Lasch puts in his widely cited book "Culture of Narcissism"...

Building Spaces for Hyperlocal Citizen Journalism (2008)

Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election (2008)

One of the perceived Achilles heels of online citizen journalism is its perceived inability to conduct investigative and first-hand reporting. A number of projects have recently addressed this...

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Australian political bloggers and citizen journalists appear to have played an important role in the 2007 federal elections. They provided a highly critical corrective to mainstream journalism,...

Social Innovation, User-Created Content and the Future of the ABC and SBS as Public Service Media : Submission to Review of National Broadcasting (ABC and SBS), Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. (2008)

Flew, Terry, Cunningham, Stuart D., Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A.

This submission to the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy’s public inquiry into the future of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the Special Broadcasting...

Citizen journalism and political participation : the youdecide project and the 2007 Australian Federal Election (2008)

Although there is great interest in citizen journalism services that harness user-generated content, the continuing contribution of professional staff who coordinate such efforts is often overlooked....

The 2007 Australian Federal election not only saw the election of a Labor government after 11 years of John Howard’s conservative Coalition government. It also saw new levels of political...

Many of the dust-ups so far between bloggers and the mainstream media (MSM) in Australia have concerned comment, not news. The kinds of spats we’ve written about previously have been over who...

The blogosphere and online independent media certainly proved themselves capable of offering an outstanding alternative narrative of last year's federal election. In several pieces during the...

It’s almost a cliche now to assert that the US blogosphere is an election-cycle ahead of what we have in Australia. We’re not so sure it’s that simple, mostly because it seems that online,...

Locating the Australian Blogosphere: Towards a New Research Methodology (2008)

Though we often give the print media a hard time here at Club Bloggery, we’re not so sanguine about the end of the iconic magazine, The Bulletin, last month. Despite its virulently racist origins,...

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Much has been written about the potential impact of the blogosphere on future patterns of global, national, and local public communication; blogs and other forms of distributed, networked, non-mass...

Discussion Paper: Network and Concept Maps for the Blogosphere (2008)

On Saturday night the story broke about two Victorian Liberal Party staffers who had been sacked for blogging. Needless to say, they weren't using the blog to share recipes or post pictures of their...

Bruns, Axel, Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Highfield, Timothy J.

While qualitative evidence for the networked patterns of discussion, debate, and deliberation in the blogosphere is readily available, it is more difficult to establish a solid quantitative picture...

Citizen Journalism and Political participation: The Youdecide project and the 2007 Australian Federal Election (2008)

Journalism as Social Networking: The Australian youdecide project and the 2007 Federal election (2008)

The 2007 Australian Federal election not only saw the election of a Labor government after 11 years of John Howard's conservative Coalition government. It also saw new levels of political engagement...

Google Yourself! Measuring the performance of personalized information resources (2008)

The increasing prevalence of new media technologies and the rise of citizen journalism has coincided with a crisis in industrial journalism –as the figure of the "journalist as hero" is fading, new...

Nicolai, Thomas, Kirchhoff, Lars, Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J.

Narcissism is generally perceived as a growing social phenomenon in our society (Kopelman 1984; Mullins et al. 1984; Nelson 1977), as Lasch puts in his widely cited book "Culture of Narcissism"...

Building Spaces for Hyperlocal Citizen Journalism (2008)

Australia's Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election (2008)

One of the perceived Achilles heels of online citizen journalism is its perceived inability to conduct investigative and first-hand reporting. A number of projects have recently addressed this...

Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A., Saunders, Barry J., Kirchhoff, Lars, Nicolai, Thomas

Australian political bloggers and citizen journalists appear to have played an important role in the 2007 federal elections. They provided a highly critical corrective to mainstream journalism,...

Citizen journalism and political participation : the youdecide project and the 2007 Australian Federal Election (2008)

Social Innovation, User-Created Content and the Future of the ABC and SBS as Public Service Media : Submission to Review of National Broadcasting (ABC and SBS), Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy. (2008)

The 2007 Australian Federal election not only saw the election of a Labor government after 11 years of John Howard’s conservative Coalition government. It also saw new levels of political...

Flew, Terry, Cunningham, Stuart D., Bruns, Axel, Wilson, Jason A.

This submission to the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy’s public inquiry into the future of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the Special Broadcasting...

Although there is great interest in citizen journalism services that harness user-generated content, the continuing contribution of professional staff who coordinate such efforts is often overlooked....

One of the most prominent recurring features of the long election campaign we've just put behind us were our politicians' and journalists' usually ill-fated moves to attempt the humour defence...

One of the most prominent recurring features of the long election campaign we've just put behind us were our politicians' and journalists' usually ill-fated moves to attempt the humour defence...

One of the most prominent recurring features of the long election campaign we've just put behind us were our politicians' and journalists' usually ill-fated moves to attempt the humour defence...

Collectively, the writers here at Club Bloggery have been watching the Australian political blogosphere for years. We know that the bloggers who have perhaps been most important and prominent down...

Collectively, the writers here at Club Bloggery have been watching the Australian political blogosphere for years. We know that the bloggers who have perhaps been most important and prominent down...

In an election campaign as drawn out as this, you'd have to have excellent memory to remember the hype around John Howard's use of YouTube to make policy announcements. Some months ago, the media...

In an election campaign as drawn out as this, you'd have to have excellent memory to remember the hype around John Howard's use of YouTube to make policy announcements. Some months ago, the media...

This close to the election, it's customary for newspapers to recommend a vote one way or the other. We're not about to do that at Club Bloggery (although we would recommend thinking about the...

This close to the election, it's customary for newspapers to recommend a vote one way or the other. We're not about to do that at Club Bloggery (although we would recommend thinking about the...

Climate change dominated a couple of days of Federal Election campaigning earlier this week, with the major parties both fumbling in laying out their responses. Peter Garrett and Malcolm Turnbull...

Collectively, the writers here at Club Bloggery have been watching the Australian political blogosphere for years. We know that the bloggers who have perhaps been most important and prominent down...

In an election campaign as drawn out as this, you'd have to have excellent memory to remember the hype around John Howard's use of YouTube to make policy announcements. Some months ago, the media...

This close to the election, it's customary for newspapers to recommend a vote one way or the other. We're not about to do that at Club Bloggery (although we would recommend thinking about the...

The announcement of the Greensblog is an interesting example for the possibilities of blogging for minority political parties. Clearly drawing inspiration from Democrats Senator Andrew Bartlett’s...

The mainstream media and critics of Web 2.0’s "cult of the amateur" often suggest that blogs and citizen journalism will never replace their mainstream counterparts because they "don’t break...

Bloggers Watch as Journalists Turn on Each Other over Worm (2007)

In the current political climate, it's no surprise that a number of sessions at the recent Australian Blogging Conference at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane focussed on the potential...

In spite of the growing evidence of the role of bloggers like Possums Pollytics and citizen journalism projects like our own Youdecide2007 as alternative commentators and opinion leaders in the...

The announcement of the Greensblog is an interesting example for the possibilities of blogging for minority political parties. Clearly drawing inspiration from Democrats Senator Andrew Bartlett’s...

The mainstream media and critics of Web 2.0’s "cult of the amateur" often suggest that blogs and citizen journalism will never replace their mainstream counterparts because they "don’t break...

Bloggers Watch as Journalists Turn on Each Other over Worm (2007)

In the current political climate, it's no surprise that a number of sessions at the recent Australian Blogging Conference at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane focussed on the potential...

In spite of the growing evidence of the role of bloggers like Possums Pollytics and citizen journalism projects like our own Youdecide2007 as alternative commentators and opinion leaders in the...

The announcement of the Greensblog is an interesting example for the possibilities of blogging for minority political parties. Clearly drawing inspiration from Democrats Senator Andrew Bartlett’s...

The mainstream media and critics of Web 2.0’s "cult of the amateur" often suggest that blogs and citizen journalism will never replace their mainstream counterparts because they "don’t break...

Bloggers Watch as Journalists Turn on Each Other over Worm (2007)

In the current political climate, it's no surprise that a number of sessions at the recent Australian Blogging Conference at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane focussed on the potential...

In spite of the growing evidence of the role of bloggers like Possums Pollytics and citizen journalism projects like our own Youdecide2007 as alternative commentators and opinion leaders in the...

Recent public spats between mainstream industrial journalism and citizen-led media – news bloggers and citizen journalists – actually mask their increasing interdependence, and obscure the...

Recent public spats between mainstream industrial journalism and citizen-led media – news bloggers and citizen journalists – actually mask their increasing interdependence, and obscure the...

Recent public spats between mainstream industrial journalism and citizen-led media – news bloggers and citizen journalists – actually mask their increasing interdependence, and obscure the...

Recent public spats between mainstream industrial journalism and citizen-led media – news bloggers and citizen journalists – actually mask their increasing interdependence, and obscure the...

The announcement of the Greensblog is an interesting example for the possibilities of blogging for minority political parties. Clearly drawing inspiration from Democrats Senator Andrew Bartlett’s...

The mainstream media and critics of Web 2.0’s "cult of the amateur" often suggest that blogs and citizen journalism will never replace their mainstream counterparts because they "don’t break...

Bloggers Watch as Journalists Turn on Each Other over Worm (2007)

In the current political climate, it's no surprise that a number of sessions at the recent Australian Blogging Conference at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane focussed on the potential...

In spite of the growing evidence of the role of bloggers like Possums Pollytics and citizen journalism projects like our own Youdecide2007 as alternative commentators and opinion leaders in the...

Collectively, the writers here at Club Bloggery have been watching the Australian political blogosphere for years. We know that the bloggers who have perhaps been most important and prominent down...

In an election campaign as drawn out as this, you'd have to have excellent memory to remember the hype around John Howard's use of YouTube to make policy announcements. Some months ago, the media...

This close to the election, it's customary for newspapers to recommend a vote one way or the other. We're not about to do that at Club Bloggery (although we would recommend thinking about the...

One of the most prominent recurring features of the long election campaign we've just put behind us were our politicians' and journalists' usually ill-fated moves to attempt the humour defence...

Recent public spats between mainstream industrial journalism and citizen-led media – news bloggers and citizen journalists – actually mask their increasing interdependence, and obscure the...

The announcement of the Greensblog is an interesting example for the possibilities of blogging for minority political parties. Clearly drawing inspiration from Democrats Senator Andrew Bartlett’s...

The mainstream media and critics of Web 2.0’s "cult of the amateur" often suggest that blogs and citizen journalism will never replace their mainstream counterparts because they "don’t break...

Bloggers Watch as Journalists Turn on Each Other over Worm (2007)

In the current political climate, it's no surprise that a number of sessions at the recent Australian Blogging Conference at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane focussed on the potential...

In spite of the growing evidence of the role of bloggers like Possums Pollytics and citizen journalism projects like our own Youdecide2007 as alternative commentators and opinion leaders in the...

Collectively, the writers here at Club Bloggery have been watching the Australian political blogosphere for years. We know that the bloggers who have perhaps been most important and prominent down...

In an election campaign as drawn out as this, you'd have to have excellent memory to remember the hype around John Howard's use of YouTube to make policy announcements. Some months ago, the media...

This close to the election, it's customary for newspapers to recommend a vote one way or the other. We're not about to do that at Club Bloggery (although we would recommend thinking about the...

One of the most prominent recurring features of the long election campaign we've just put behind us were our politicians' and journalists' usually ill-fated moves to attempt the humour defence...

Recent public spats between mainstream industrial journalism and citizen-led media – news bloggers and citizen journalists – actually mask their increasing interdependence, and obscure the...

The announcement of the Greensblog is an interesting example for the possibilities of blogging for minority political parties. Clearly drawing inspiration from Democrats Senator Andrew Bartlett's...

The mainstream media and critics of Web 2.0's "cult of the amateur" often suggest that blogs and citizen journalism will never replace their mainstream counterparts because they "don’t break...

Bloggers Watch as Journalists Turn on Each Other over Worm (2007)

In the current political climate, it's no surprise that a number of sessions at the recent Australian Blogging Conference at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane focussed on the potential...

In spite of the growing evidence of the role of bloggers like Possums Pollytics and citizen journalism projects like our own Youdecide2007 as alternative commentators and opinion leaders in the...

Climate change dominated a couple of days of Federal Election campaigning earlier this week, with the major parties both fumbling in laying out their responses. Peter Garrett and Malcolm Turnbull...

Collectively, the writers here at Club Bloggery have been watching the Australian political blogosphere for years. We know that the bloggers who have perhaps been most important and prominent down...

In an election campaign as drawn out as this, you'd have to have excellent memory to remember the hype around John Howard's use of YouTube to make policy announcements. Some months ago, the media...

This close to the election, it's customary for newspapers to recommend a vote one way or the other. We're not about to do that at Club Bloggery (although we would recommend thinking about the...

One of the most prominent recurring features of the long election campaign we've just put behind us were our politicians' and journalists' usually ill-fated moves to attempt the humour defence...

Recent public spats between mainstream industrial journalism and citizen-led media - news bloggers and citizen journalists - actually mask their increasing interdependence, and obscure the advantages...

The announcement of the Greensblog is an interesting example for the possibilities of blogging for minority political parties. Clearly drawing inspiration from Democrats Senator Andrew Bartlett's...

The mainstream media and critics of Web 2.0's "cult of the amateur" often suggest that blogs and citizen journalism will never replace their mainstream counterparts because they "don't break...

Bloggers Watch as Journalists Turn on Each Other over Worm (2007)

In the current political climate, it's no surprise that a number of sessions at the recent Australian Blogging Conference at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane focussed on the potential...

In spite of the growing evidence of the role of bloggers like Possums Pollytics and citizen journalism projects like our own Youdecide2007 as alternative commentators and opinion leaders in the...

Climate change dominated a couple of days of Federal Election campaigning earlier this week, with the major parties both fumbling in laying out their responses. Peter Garrett and Malcolm Turnbull...

Collectively, the writers here at Club Bloggery have been watching the Australian political blogosphere for years. We know that the bloggers who have perhaps been most important and prominent down...

In an election campaign as drawn out as this, you'd have to have excellent memory to remember the hype around John Howard's use of YouTube to make policy announcements. Some months ago, the media...

This close to the election, it's customary for newspapers to recommend a vote one way or the other. We're not about to do that at Club Bloggery (although we would recommend thinking about the...

One of the most prominent recurring features of the long election campaign we've just put behind us were our politicians' and journalists' usually ill-fated moves to attempt the humour defence...

Recent public spats between mainstream industrial journalism and citizen-led media – news bloggers and citizen journalists – actually mask their increasing interdependence, and obscure the...

The announcement of the Greensblog is an interesting example for the possibilities of blogging for minority political parties. Clearly drawing inspiration from Democrats Senator Andrew Bartlett’s...

The mainstream media and critics of Web 2.0’s "cult of the amateur" often suggest that blogs and citizen journalism will never replace their mainstream counterparts because they "don’t break...

Bloggers Watch as Journalists Turn on Each Other over Worm (2007)

In the current political climate, it's no surprise that a number of sessions at the recent Australian Blogging Conference at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane focussed on the potential...

In spite of the growing evidence of the role of bloggers like Possums Pollytics and citizen journalism projects like our own Youdecide2007 as alternative commentators and opinion leaders in the...

Climate change dominated a couple of days of Federal Election campaigning earlier this week, with the major parties both fumbling in laying out their responses. Peter Garrett and Malcolm Turnbull...

Collectively, the writers here at Club Bloggery have been watching the Australian political blogosphere for years. We know that the bloggers who have perhaps been most important and prominent down...

In an election campaign as drawn out as this, you'd have to have excellent memory to remember the hype around John Howard's use of YouTube to make policy announcements. Some months ago, the media...

This close to the election, it's customary for newspapers to recommend a vote one way or the other. We're not about to do that at Club Bloggery (although we would recommend thinking about the...

One of the most prominent recurring features of the long election campaign we've just put behind us were our politicians' and journalists' usually ill-fated moves to attempt the humour defence...

Recent public spats between mainstream industrial journalism and citizen-led media – news bloggers and citizen journalists – actually mask their increasing interdependence, and obscure the...

The announcement of the Greensblog is an interesting example for the possibilities of blogging for minority political parties. Clearly drawing inspiration from Democrats Senator Andrew Bartlett’s...

The mainstream media and critics of Web 2.0’s "cult of the amateur" often suggest that blogs and citizen journalism will never replace their mainstream counterparts because they "don’t break...

Bloggers Watch as Journalists Turn on Each Other over Worm (2007)

In the current political climate, it's no surprise that a number of sessions at the recent Australian Blogging Conference at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane focussed on the potential...

In spite of the growing evidence of the role of bloggers like Possums Pollytics and citizen journalism projects like our own Youdecide2007 as alternative commentators and opinion leaders in the...

Climate change dominated a couple of days of Federal Election campaigning earlier this week, with the major parties both fumbling in laying out their responses. Peter Garrett and Malcolm Turnbull...

Collectively, the writers here at Club Bloggery have been watching the Australian political blogosphere for years. We know that the bloggers who have perhaps been most important and prominent down...

In an election campaign as drawn out as this, you'd have to have excellent memory to remember the hype around John Howard's use of YouTube to make policy announcements. Some months ago, the media...

This close to the election, it's customary for newspapers to recommend a vote one way or the other. We're not about to do that at Club Bloggery (although we would recommend thinking about the...