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Gatewatching - Collaborative Online News Production (Paperback, illustrated edition): Axel Bruns Gatewatching - Collaborative Online News Production (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Axel Bruns
R1,617 Discovery Miles 16 170 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production is the first comprehensive study of the latest wave of online news publications. The book 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 that have emerged in recent years. Building on collaborative approaches borrowed from the open source software development community, this book illustrates how 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.

Twitter and Society (Paperback, New edition): Katrin Weller, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Merja Mahrt, Cornelius Puschmann Twitter and Society (Paperback, New edition)
Katrin Weller, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Merja Mahrt, Cornelius Puschmann
R1,042 Discovery Miles 10 420 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

This book has won the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award 2014. Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has evolved from a niche service to a mass phenomenon; it has become instrumental for everyday communication as well as for political debates, crisis communication, marketing, and cultural participation. But the basic idea behind it has stayed the same: users may post short messages (tweets) of up to 140 characters and follow the updates posted by other users. Drawing on the experience of leading international Twitter researchers from a variety of disciplines and contexts, this is the first book to document the various notions and concepts of Twitter communication, providing a detailed and comprehensive overview of current research into the uses of Twitter. It also presents methods for analyzing Twitter data and outlines their practical application in different research contexts.

Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond - From Production to Produsage (Paperback, New edition): Axel Bruns Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond - From Production to Produsage (Paperback, New edition)
Axel Bruns
R903 Discovery Miles 9 030 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

We -- the users turned creators and distributors of content -- are TIME's Person of the Year 2006, and AdAge's Advertising Agency of the Year 2007. 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? In this groundbreaking exploration of our developing participatory online culture, Axel Bruns establishes the core principles which drive the rise of collaborative content creation in environments, from open source through blogs and Wikipedia to Second Life. This book shows that what's emerging here is no longer just a new form of content production, but a new process for the continuous creation and extension of knowledge and art by collaborative communities: produsage. The implications of the gradual shift from production to produsage are profound, and will affect the very core of our culture, economy, society, and democracy.

Digitizing Democracy (Paperback): Axel Bruns, Brian McNair, Aljosha Karim Schapals Digitizing Democracy (Paperback)
Axel Bruns, Brian McNair, Aljosha Karim Schapals
R1,376 Discovery Miles 13 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What are the key challenges facing our increasingly digitized democracy, and how might we as citizens contribute to resolving them? This book explores these questions, adopting a multi-disciplinary approach that combines work from media studies, journalism studies, and political science scholars, and draws on trends in countries including Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Egypt, and Indonesia. The book is divided into four main themes: (1) the impact of digital communication on politics and government; (2) the future of news and journalism in the network society; (3) the potential of digital media to enhance civic engagement and social inclusion; and (4) visions for the future of digital democracy.

Twitter and Society (Hardcover, New edition): Katrin Weller, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Merja Mahrt, Cornelius Puschmann Twitter and Society (Hardcover, New edition)
Katrin Weller, Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Merja Mahrt, Cornelius Puschmann
R4,064 Discovery Miles 40 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book has won the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title award 2014. Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has evolved from a niche service to a mass phenomenon; it has become instrumental for everyday communication as well as for political debates, crisis communication, marketing, and cultural participation. But the basic idea behind it has stayed the same: users may post short messages (tweets) of up to 140 characters and follow the updates posted by other users. Drawing on the experience of leading international Twitter researchers from a variety of disciplines and contexts, this is the first book to document the various notions and concepts of Twitter communication, providing a detailed and comprehensive overview of current research into the uses of Twitter. It also presents methods for analyzing Twitter data and outlines their practical application in different research contexts.

Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond - From Production to Produsage (Hardcover, New edition): Axel Bruns Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond - From Production to Produsage (Hardcover, New edition)
Axel Bruns
R3,006 Discovery Miles 30 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

We -- the users turned creators and distributors of content -- are TIME's Person of the Year 2006, and AdAge's Advertising Agency of the Year 2007. 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? In this groundbreaking exploration of our developing participatory online culture, Axel Bruns establishes the core principles which drive the rise of collaborative content creation in environments, from open source through blogs and Wikipedia to Second Life. This book shows that what's emerging here is no longer just a new form of content production, but a new process for the continuous creation and extension of knowledge and art by collaborative communities: produsage. The implications of the gradual shift from production to produsage are profound, and will affect the very core of our culture, economy, society, and democracy.

Digitizing Democracy (Hardcover): Axel Bruns, Brian McNair, Aljosha Karim Schapals Digitizing Democracy (Hardcover)
Axel Bruns, Brian McNair, Aljosha Karim Schapals
R4,468 Discovery Miles 44 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What are the key challenges facing our increasingly digitized democracy, and how might we as citizens contribute to resolving them? This book explores these questions, adopting a multi-disciplinary approach that combines work from media studies, journalism studies, and political science scholars, and draws on trends in countries including Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Egypt, and Indonesia. The book is divided into four main themes: (1) the impact of digital communication on politics and government; (2) the future of news and journalism in the network society; (3) the potential of digital media to enhance civic engagement and social inclusion; and (4) visions for the future of digital democracy.

Gatewatching and News Curation - Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere (Paperback, New edition): Axel Bruns Gatewatching and News Curation - Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere (Paperback, New edition)
Axel Bruns
R1,624 Discovery Miles 16 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere documents an emerging news media environment that is characterised by an increasingly networked and social structure. In this environment, professional journalists and non-professional news users alike are increasingly cast in the role of gatewatcher and news curator, and sometimes accept these roles with considerable enthusiasm. A growing part of their everyday activities takes place within the spaces operated by the major social media providers, where platform features outside of their control affect how they can post, find, access, share, curate, and otherwise engage with news, rumours, analysis, comments, opinion, and related forms of information. If in the current social media environment the majority of users are engaged in sharing news; if the networked structure of these platforms means that users observe and learn from each other's sharing practices; if these practices result in the potential for widespread serendipitous news discovery; and if such news discovery is now overtaking search engines as the major driver of traffic to news sites-then gatewatching and news curation are no longer practiced only by citizen journalists, and it becomes important to fully understand the typical motivations, practices, and consequences of habitual news sharing through social media platforms. Professional journalism and news media have yet to fully come to terms with these changes. The first wave of citizen media was normalised into professional journalistic practices-but this book argues that what we are observing in the present context instead is the normalisation of professional journalism into social media.

Uses of Blogs (Paperback): Axel Bruns, Joanne Jacobs Uses of Blogs (Paperback)
Axel Bruns, Joanne Jacobs
R925 Discovery Miles 9 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Uses of Blogs brings together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of fields to offer a broad spectrum of perspectives on current and emerging uses of blogs. Blogging is rapidly developing into a mainstream activity for Internet users, but beyond the popular headlines, there has been very little serious research done on their actual application in specific, everyday contexts. One reason for this is that the variety of styles of blogging -- new blogs and political commentary blogs, marketing blogs, corporate dark blogs, fictional blogs, educational blogs, to name just a few -- make it difficult to generalize and to imagine how blogs might be used in particular environments. This pathbreaking new book demonstrates the application of blogs and blogging in the full range of industrial and social contexts.

Gatewatching and News Curation - Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere (Hardcover, New edition): Axel Bruns Gatewatching and News Curation - Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere (Hardcover, New edition)
Axel Bruns
R2,755 Discovery Miles 27 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere documents an emerging news media environment that is characterised by an increasingly networked and social structure. In this environment, professional journalists and non-professional news users alike are increasingly cast in the role of gatewatcher and news curator, and sometimes accept these roles with considerable enthusiasm. A growing part of their everyday activities takes place within the spaces operated by the major social media providers, where platform features outside of their control affect how they can post, find, access, share, curate, and otherwise engage with news, rumours, analysis, comments, opinion, and related forms of information. If in the current social media environment the majority of users are engaged in sharing news; if the networked structure of these platforms means that users observe and learn from each other's sharing practices; if these practices result in the potential for widespread serendipitous news discovery; and if such news discovery is now overtaking search engines as the major driver of traffic to news sites-then gatewatching and news curation are no longer practiced only by citizen journalists, and it becomes important to fully understand the typical motivations, practices, and consequences of habitual news sharing through social media platforms. Professional journalism and news media have yet to fully come to terms with these changes. The first wave of citizen media was normalised into professional journalistic practices-but this book argues that what we are observing in the present context instead is the normalisation of professional journalism into social media.

The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics (Hardcover): Axel Bruns, Gunn Enli, Anders Olof Larsson, Christian... The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics (Hardcover)
Axel Bruns, Gunn Enli, Anders Olof Larsson, Christian Christensen, Eli Skogerbo
R7,672 Discovery Miles 76 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Social media are now widely used for political protests, campaigns, and communication in developed and developing nations, but available research has not yet paid sufficient attention to experiences beyond the US and UK. This collection tackles this imbalance head-on, compiling cutting-edge research across six continents to provide a comprehensive, global, up-to-date review of recent political uses of social media. Drawing together empirical analyses of the use of social media by political movements and in national and regional elections and referenda, The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics presents studies ranging from Anonymous and the Arab Spring to the Greek Aganaktismenoi, and from South Korean presidential elections to the Scottish independence referendum. The book is framed by a selection of keystone theoretical contributions, evaluating and updating existing frameworks for the social media age.

The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics (Paperback): Axel Bruns, Gunn Enli, Anders Olof Larsson, Christian... The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics (Paperback)
Axel Bruns, Gunn Enli, Anders Olof Larsson, Christian Christensen, Eli Skogerbo
R1,837 Discovery Miles 18 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Social media are now widely used for political protests, campaigns, and communication in developed and developing nations, but available research has not yet paid sufficient attention to experiences beyond the US and UK. This collection tackles this imbalance head-on, compiling cutting-edge research across six continents to provide a comprehensive, global, up-to-date review of recent political uses of social media. Drawing together empirical analyses of the use of social media by political movements and in national and regional elections and referenda, The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics presents studies ranging from Anonymous and the Arab Spring to the Greek Aganaktismenoi, and from South Korean presidential elections to the Scottish independence referendum. The book is framed by a selection of keystone theoretical contributions, evaluating and updating existing frameworks for the social media age.

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