Citizen Journalism paper at CCI Conference
The ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation has now completed its conference Creating Value: Between Commerce and Commons. It was a very successful event, with over 180...
View ArticleJournalism as Social Networking
Jason Wilson and I have just completed a paper that has been sent to Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism titled “Journalism as Social Networking: The Australian youdecide2007 project and the...
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Presentation to CPRF 2008
2008 CPRF Presentation 2008 CPRF Presentationhttp://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=2008-cprf-presentation-1222670072590253-8&stripped_title=2008-cprf-presentation-presentation View...
View ArticleLive Blogging at IGNITE ’08
I am at the IGNITE ’08 postgraduate conference being held for Creative Industries students at QUT. Debra Adams has completed her presentation on citizen journalism. Key points in the Q&A; were: are...
View ArticleTrouble on the citizen journalism front
Readers of this blog would know that the emerging area of citizen journalism has been an ongoing interest of mine. The ARC Linkage grant that I have been involved in, with partners including SBS, On...
View ArticleWhen is it wrong to take photos?
Graham Young raises some interesting issues on his Ambit Gambit site about Labor MP James Bidgood taking pictures of a man threatening to set himself on fire outside Parliament House on Thursday. While...
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How reliable is the information from Iran?
Good article from The Guardian about the issues arising about how to determine the reliability of information coming through from Iran via social media sites. The internet is a brilliant machine for...
View ArticleSocial Media and Journalism in Iran
Interesting piece by Brian McNair on social media and journalism in post-election Iran: Current events in Iran exemplify what I called in a 2006 book, ‘cultural chaos’. A ruling authoritarian elite...
View ArticleDigital Economy report
The Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy has released its report Australia’s Digital Economy: Future Directions. The report develops the following argument as found in its...
View ArticleJournalism as Social Networking
This paper by Jason Wilson and myself has been published in Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, Vol. 11 no. 2, April 2010. The abstract is below: The increasing prevalence of new media...
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