Publications

Reports

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Kate Crawford, and Frances Shaw. #qldfloods and @QPSMedia: Crisis Communication on Twitter in the 2011 South East Queensland Floods. Brisbane: ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, 2012.

Articles and Presentations:

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “#ausvotes: How Twitter Covered the 2010 Australian Federal Election.” Communication, Politics & Culture 44.2 (2011): 37-56.

Axel Bruns. “Gatekeeping, Gatewatching, Real-Time Feedback: New Challenges for Journalism.” Brazilian Journalism Research 7.2 (2011).

Axel Bruns. “How Long Is a Tweet? Mapping Dynamic Conversation Networks on Twitter Using Gawk and Gephi.” Information, Communication & Society, 17 Nov. 2011. DOI:10.1080/1369118X.2011.635214.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “New Methodologies for Researching News Discussion on Twitter.” Paper presented at the Future of Journalism conference, Cardiff, 8-9 Sep. 2011.

Axel Bruns. “Mapping Online Publics: Researching the Uses of Twitter.” Guest lecture presented at the University of Amsterdam, 1 Sep. 2011.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “The Use of Twitter Hashtags in the Formation of Ad Hoc Publics.” Paper presented at the European Consortium for Political Research conference, Reykjavik, 25-27 Aug. 2011.

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Tim Highfield, Lars Kirchhoff and Thomas Nicolai. “Mapping the Australian Networked Public Sphere.” Social Science Computer Review 29.3 (2011): 277-287.

Axel Bruns. “Ad Hoc Innovation by Users of Social Networks: The Case of Twitter.” Paper presented at the Challenge Social Innovation conference, Vienna, 19-21 Sep. 2011.

Axel Bruns. “Tracking Crises on Twitter: Analysing #qldfloods and #eqnz.” Plenary paper presented at the Emergency Management Conference, Canberra, 12 Apr. 2011.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “Mapping Online Publics.” Workshop presented at the Communities & Technologies conference, Brisbane, 29 June 2011.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “Twitter, Public Communication and the Media Ecology: The Case of the Queensland Floods.” Paper presented at The World According to Twitter workshop, Brisbane, 28 June 2011.

Axel Bruns. “Mapping Online Publics: Understanding How Australians Use Social Media.” Paper presented at the National Public Sector Digital Media Officers’ Forum 2011, Melbourne, 21 June 2011.

Axel Bruns. “Towards Distributed Citizen Participation: Lessons from WikiLeaks and the Queensland Floods.” Keynote presented at the Conference on e-Democracy, Krems, Austria, 5 May 2011. In Peter Parycek, Manuel J. Kripp, and Noella Edelmann, eds., CeDEM11: Proceedings of the International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government, Krems, Austria, 5-6 May 2011. Krems: Edition Donau-Universität Krems, 2011. 35-52. (presentation slides)

Axel Bruns. “Tracking Crises on Twitter: Analysing #qldfloods and #eqnz.” Plenary paper presented at the Emergency Media and Public Affairs Conference, Canberra, 12 Apr. 2011.

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Kate Crawford, and Frances Shaw. “Social Media Use in the Queensland Floods.” Plenary paper presented at the Eidos Institute “Social Media in Times of Crisis” symposium, Brisbane, 4 Apr. 2011.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “Election 2010: The View from Twitter.” Paper presented at the International Australian Studies Association ‘Double Vision’ conference, Sydney, 26 Nov. 2010.

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Thomas Nicolai, and Lars Kirchhoff. “Mapping Australian User-Created Content: Methodological, Technological and Ethical Challenges.” Paper presented at AoIR 2010, Gothenburg, 22 Oct. 2010.

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Thomas Nicolai, and Lars Kirchhoff. “Key Events in Australian (Micro-)Blogging during 2010.” Paper presented at the 3rd European Communications Conference, Hamburg, 15 Oct. 2010.

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Lars Kirchhoff, and Thomas Nicolai. “Tracing Publics in the Australian Blogosphere: New Methods for International Communication Research.” Paper presented at Doing Global Media Studies, a pre-conference to ECREA 2010, Bremen, 12 Oct. 2010.

Axel Bruns and Jean Burgess. “In Search of Australian Blogs: Determining the Extent of the Contemporary Australian Blogosphere.” Paper presented at ANZCA 2010, Canberra, 8 July 2010.

Axel Bruns, Jean Burgess, Tim Highfield, Lars Kirchhoff, and Thomas Nicolai. “Mapping the Australian Networked Public Sphere.” Paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, Singapore, 25 June 2010.

Axel Bruns. “Tracking Social Media Participation: New Approaches to Studying User-Generated Content.” Invited seminar at the Journalism & Media Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 29 Oct. 2009.

Axel Bruns, Tim Highfield, Lars Kirchhoff, and Thomas Nicolai. “Critical Voices in the Australian Political Blogosphere.” Paper presented at AoIR 2009, Milwaukee, 7-10 Oct. 2009.

Thomas Nicolai, Lars Kirchhoff, Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, and Barry Saunders. “The Self-Googling Phenomenon: Investigating the Performance of Personalized Information Resources.” First Monday 14.12 (7 Dec. 2009).

Lars Kirchhoff, Thomas Nicolai, Axel Bruns, and Tim Highfield. “Monitoring the Australian Blogosphere through the 2007 Australian Federal Election.” Proceedings of ANZCA 2009, Brisbane, 8 July 2009. (presentation slides and audio)

Axel Bruns, Lars Kirchhoff, and Thomas Nicolai. “Mapping the Australian Political Blogosphere.” Poster presented at WebSci ’09, Athens, 19 Mar. 2009. (poster, ~5MB)

Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, Barry Saunders, Lars Kirchhoff, and Thomas Nicolai. ” Australia’s Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election.” Paper presented at the AoIR 2008 conference, Copenhagen, 18 Oct. 2008. (presentation slides and audio)

Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, Barry Saunders, Tim Highfield, Lars Kirchhoff, and Thomas Nicolai. “Locating the Australian Blogosphere: Towards a New Research Methodology.” Paper presented at the ISEA 2008 conference, Singapore, 25 July – 3 August 2008. (presentation slides and audio)

Axel Bruns. “Life beyond the Public Sphere: Towards a Networked Model for Political Deliberation.” Information Polity 13.1-2 (2008): 65-79.

Axel Bruns, Lars Kirchhoff, Thomas Nicolai, Jason Wilson, Barry Saunders, and Tim Highfield. “Discussion Paper: Network and Concept Maps for the Blogosphere.” Discussion paper for blog mapping project, 1 May 2008.

Axel Bruns. “Citizen Journalism in the 2007 Australian Federal Election.” Paper presented at the AMIC 2008 conference: “Convergence, Citizen Journalism, and Social Change”, Brisbane, 26-28 Mar. 2008. Also published in e-Journalist 8.1 (2008). (presentation slides and audio)

Lars Kirchhoff, Axel Bruns, and Thomas Nicolai. “Investigating the Impact of the Blogosphere: Using PageRank to Determine the Distribution of Attention.” Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Vancouver, 17-20 Oct. 2007. (presentation slides and audio)

Axel Bruns. “Methodologies for Mapping the Political Blogosphere: An Exploration Using the IssueCrawler Research Tool.” First Monday 12.5 (May 2007).

Burgess, Jean, Marcus Foth and Helen Klaebe. Everyday Creativity as Civic Engagement: A Cultural Citizenship View of New Media, Communications Policy and Research Forum, University of Technology Sydney, September 2006.

Books and Book Chapters

Burgess, Jean and Joshua Green (2009) YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Burgess, Jean E. and Banks, John A. (2010) User-Created Content and Online Social Networks. In: Cunningham, Stuart D. and Turner, Graeme (Eds.) The Media and Communications in Australia (3rd ed.). Allen & Unwin, St. Leonard’s.

Burgess, Jean (2010/11) ‘User-Created Content and Everyday Cultural Practice: Lessons from YouTube.’ Television as Digital Media, edited by James Bennett and Niki Strange, Durham: Duke University Press (forthcoming).

Burgess, Jean (2010) ‘Remediating Vernacular Creativity: Photography and Cultural Citizenship in the Flickr Photosharing Network.’ Spaces of Vernacular Creativity: Rethinking the cultural economy. Edited by Tim Edensor, Deborah Leslie, Steve Millington, and Norma Rantisi. London: Routledge.

Burgess, Jean (2008) ‘All your chocolate rain are belong to us?’ Viral Video, YouTube and the dynamics of participatory culture. In: Video Vortex Reader: Responses to YouTube (free PDF download). Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, pp. 101-109.

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