Senior Lecturer and Researcher at Queensland University of Technology
Australia
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- Social Media Project Leader at Smart Services Cooperative Research Centre
- Elected Member of the Association Executive at Association of Internet Researchers
- General Editor at M/C - Media and Culture
- Senior Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology
- Past
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- Co-founder and Production Editor at M/C - Media and Culture
- Education
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- Queensland University of Technology
- Queensland University of Technology
- The University of Queensland
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Axel Bruns’s Summary
Dr Axel Bruns is a Senior Lecturer in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. He is the author of Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage (2008) and Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (2005), and the editor of Uses of Blogs with Joanne Jacobs (2006; all released by Peter Lang, New York). His book Gatewatching was nominated for the 2006 Communications Policy Research Award at Fordham University's Donald McGannon Communication Research Center.
Axel was a co-founder of the premier online academic publisher M/C - Media and Culture, which publishes M/C Journal, M/C Reviews, M/C Dialogue, and the M/Cyclopedia of New Media, and he continues to serve as M/C's General Editor. His blog is at snurb.info, the site for his latest book is at Produsage.org, and he contributes to the Gatewatching.org group blog with Jason Wilson and Barry Saunders.
Axel Bruns’s Specialties:
produsage, user-generated content, Internet, Web 2.0, new media, citizen journalism, blogging, Wikipedia, Second Life
Axel Bruns’s Experience
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Social Media Project Leader
Smart Services Cooperative Research Centre
(Research industry)
September 2008 — Present (11 months)
The Smart Services CRC is a $120m, commercially focused collaborative research initiative, developing innovation, foresight and productivity improvements for the services sector. Services is the largest sector of the Australian economy representing approximately 80% of Australia’s GDP and 85% of employment. Within the services industries Smart Services’ initial programmes will be customer-focused with outcomes translatable across the whole services sector. Initial research outcomes and demonstrators will principally be associated with the digital media, finance and government sectors (including the health sector) to develop exciting new capabilities and demonstrate the breadth of the applicability of our work.
My research in the Smart Services CRC is focussed on the areas of Social Media and Audience & Market Foresight, where I study the impact on the services sector of trends towards a greater role for produsage in the generation of content. -
Elected Member of the Association Executive
Association of Internet Researchers
(Research industry)
October 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
AoIR is the key organisation for researchers in the field of Internet studies.
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General Editor
M/C - Media and Culture
(Online Media industry)
March 2002 — Present (7 years 5 months)
Axel Bruns is General Editor of the premier online academic publisher M/C - Media and Culture (http://www.media-culture.org.au/), which publishes M/C Journal, M/C Reviews, M/C Dialogue, and the M/Cyclopedia of New Media.
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Senior Lecturer
Queensland University of Technology
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2002 — Present (7 years 7 months)
Dr Axel Bruns is a Senior Lecturer in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. He is the author of Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage (2008) and Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (2005), and the editor of Uses of Blogs with Joanne Jacobs (2006; all released by Peter Lang, New York). His book Gatewatching was nominated for the 2006 Communications Policy Research Award at Fordham University's Donald McGannon Communication Research Center, and he contributes to the Gatewatching.org group blog with Jason Wilson and Barry Saunders.
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Co-founder and Production Editor
M/C - Media and Culture
(Online Media industry)
July 1997 — March 2002 (4 years 9 months)
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Axel Bruns’s Interests:
produsage, citizen journalism, blogging, Wikipedia, Second Life, new media, Internet studies
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