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Doctor of Philosophy (University of Queensland)
Prof. Axel Bruns is a Professor in the Digital Media Research Centre at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. His books include Are Filter Bubbles Real? (2019) and Gatewatching and News Curation: Journalism, Social Media, and the Public Sphere (2018), and the edited collections Digitizing Democracy (2019), the Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics (2016), and Twitter and Society (2014). His current work focusses on the study of user participation in social media spaces such as Twitter, and its implications for our understanding of the contemporary public sphere, drawing especially on innovative new methods for analysing ‘big social data’. He served as President of the Association of Internet Researchers in 2017–19. His research blog is at http://snurb.info/, and he tweets at @snurb_dot_info. See http://mappingonlinepublics.net/ for more details on his research into social media.
Projects (Chief investigator)
Projects
- Amplifying public value: Scholarly contributions' impact on public debate
- ARC Centre of Excellence - Australian Creative Innovation System
- Emergent music engagement practices via SoundCloud
- Evaluating the Challenge of ‘Fake News’ and Other Malinformation
- Journalism beyond the crisis: Emerging forms, practices and uses
- Music usage metrics and the future of the Australian music industry
- New media and public communication: Mapping Australian user-created content in online social networks
- Social media and agenda-setting in election campaigns
- Social media in times of crisis: learning from recent natural disasters to improve future strategies
- TrISMA - Tracking Infrastructure for Social Media Analysis
- Understanding intermedia information flows in the Australian online public sphere
Additional information
- Type
- Appointment to Prestigious Positions
- Reference year
- 2017
- Details
- Elected President of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), the leading organisation in this field of research. This role is for two years from Oct. 2017 to Oct. 2019, and follows two years in the role of Vice-President (Oct. 2015 to Oct. 2017).
- Type
- Recipient of a Nationally Competitive Research Fellowship
- Reference year
- 2013
- Details
- ARC Future Fellow Title: Understanding Intermedia Information Flows in the Australian Online Public Sphere External Reference: FT130100703 Years:2013-2017 Funding Awarded: $870,398
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2018
- Details
- Editorial Board Member, Social Media + Society journal
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2018
- Details
- Editorial Board Member of Information, Communication & Society
- Type
- Appointment to State/National/International Reference Group or Government Committees
- Reference year
- 2018
- Details
- Advisory board member for US National Science Foundation (NSF) research project PERVADE: Pervasive Data Ethics for Computational Research.
- Type
- Appointment to Prestigious Positions
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Elected Vice-President of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), the leading organisation in this field of research. This role is for two years from Oct. 2015 to Oct. 2017, and then converts automatically into the role of President (to Oct. 2019).
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2018
- Details
- International Editorial Board Member for New Media & Society
- Type
- Committee Role/Editor or Chair of an Academic Conference
- Reference year
- 2006
- Details
- Conference chair of the international conference of the Association of Internet Researchers, held in Brisbane on 27-30 Sep. 2006. AoIR is the peak international association for researchers in the field of Internet studies, and 2006 marked the first time that the conference was held outside of Europe or North America. I was invited to serve as conference chair by the Association's President, Professor Matthew Allen.
- Type
- Appointment to State/National/International Reference Group or Government Committees
- Reference year
- 2003
- Details
- Member of the researchers group at the International Internet Preservation Consortium. The IIPC is a group of eleven national libraries (including the Library of Congress, British Library, National Library of Australia, and led by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France) and the Internet Archive and works towards developing standards and tools for the preservation of Internet content. The researchers working group advises the IIPC on the needs researchers will have of an Internet archive and its content access tools, as well as on the types of content which it will be important to archive. As part of the group, in 2004 I participated in a one-day IIPC conference on Internet Preservation, at the British Library, London.
- Type
- Committee Role/Editor or Chair of an Academic Conference
- Reference year
- 2002
- Details
- General Editor of M/C - Media and Culture (http://www.media-culture.org.au/), publisher of M/C Journal, M/C Reviews, M/C Dialogue, and the M/Cyclopedia of New Media. I am a co-founder of the highly regarded academic online publisher M/C Media and Culture, and since 1998 have served in M/C in a number of roles. Through its four publications, M/C has a high international profile and regularly attracts contributors of national and international standing. As General Editor, I am responsible for the overall direction of the four M/C publications and represent M/C internationally; I also oversee staffing of the publications, and ensure the maintenance of rigorous academic standards. M/C Journal is listed on the DEST register of refereed journals, and the M/C Journal site is regularly archived by the National Library of Australia as an online resource of national significance (see http://nla.gov.au/nla.arc-10308).
- Bruns A, (2018) Gatewatching and news curation: Journalism, social media, and the public sphere (Digital Formations, Volume 113)
- Schapals A, Bruns A, McNair B, (2019) Digitizing Democracy, Routledge
- Bruns A, Enli G, Skogerbo E, Larsson A, Christensen C, (2016) The Routledge companion to social media and politics, Routledge
- Weller K, Bruns A, Burgess J, Mahrt M, Puschmann C, (2014) Twitter and society [Digital Formations, Volume 89], Peter Lang Publishing
- Hartley J, Burgess J, Bruns A, (2013) A companion to new media dynamics, John Wiley and Sons Australia
- Bruns A, (2008) Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and beyond: From production to produsage
- Bruns A, Jacobs J, (2006) Uses of Blogs, Peter Lang
- Title
- Evaluating the Challenge of 'Fake News' and Other Malinformation
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP200101317
- Start year
- 2020
- Keywords
- Title
- Amplifying Public Value: Scholarly Contributions' Impact on Public Debate
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP160100205
- Start year
- 2016
- Keywords
- Title
- Journalism Beyond the Crisis: Emerging Forms, Practices and Uses
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP160101211
- Start year
- 2016
- Keywords
- Title
- Understanding Intermedia Information Flows in the Australian Online Public Sphere
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- FT130100703
- Start year
- 2014
- Keywords
- public sphere; social media; big data
- Title
- Social media in times of crisis: learning from recent natural disasters to improve future strategies
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP120100627
- Start year
- 2012
- Keywords
- Natural Disasters; Social Media; Communication; Media; Internet
- Title
- New Media and Public Communication: Mapping Australian User-Created Content in Online Social Networks
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP1094281
- Start year
- 2010
- Keywords
- User Created Content; New Media; Public Communication; Internet Studies; Social Networks; Web 2
- Title
- Investigating Innovative Applications of Digital Media for Participatory Journalism and Citizen Engagement in Australian Public Communication
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP0669434
- Start year
- 2007
- Keywords
- journalism; media; citizenship; Internet; electronic democracy; peer to peer online publishing;
- Title
- Mapping the Missing Grassroots: Ethnographic Action Study of Local Grassroots Broadband Content (co) Creation and Consumption
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP0668357
- Start year
- 2006
- Keywords
- Digital media; Action research; Grassroots creativity; Online community; User led production;
- Title
- ARC Centre of Excellence - Australian Creative Innovation System
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- SR0590002
- Start year
- 2005
- Keywords
- Creative Industries; Digital Content; Creative Workforce; Intellectual Property; Innovation; International Creative Markerts
- Measuring the Networked Public - Exploring Network Science Methods for Large Scale Online Media Studies (2019)
- Social Media Governance: Platforms in Conflict - The Strategies of Operators and the Tactics of Users (2019)
- Contesting Rumours on Social Media during Acute Events: the 2014 Sydney Siege and 2015 Tianjin Blasts (2018)
- Broadcast, Promote, Respond, Engage: Competing Understandings Of The Purpose And Value Of Social Media In An Emergency Management Organisation (2017)
- Collaboration, Connections and Consequences - A study of cultural intermediation within the ABC Pool institutional online community (2013)
- Mapping Intermedia News Flows: Topical Discussions in the Australian and French Political Blogospheres (2011)
- The Uses of Multilingualism in Digital Culture: The Case of Inter-Language Linking (2011)