Recent Articles

Produsage in General

Axel Bruns. “Beyond the Producer/Consumer Divide: Key Principles of Produsage and Opportunities for Innovation.” In Michael A. Peters, Tina Besley, and Daniel Araya, eds., The New Development Paradigm: Education, Knowledge Economy and Digital Futures. New York: Peter Lang, 2014.

Axel Bruns. “Media Innovations, User Innovations, Societal Innovations.” Journal of Media Innovations 1.1 (2014): 13-27.

Axel Bruns. “From Prosumption to Produsage.” In Ruth Towse and Christian Handke, eds., Handbook on the Digital Creative Economy. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2013. 67-78.

Axel Bruns. “Exploring the Pro-Am Interface between Production and Produsage.” In Francis L.F. Lee, Louis Leung, Jack Linchuan Qiu, and Donna S.C. Chu, eds., Frontiers in New Media Research. New York: Routledge, 2013. 241-258.

Axel Bruns. “Reconciling Community and Commerce? Collaboration between Produsage Communities and Commercial Operators.” Information, Communication & Society 15.6 (2012): 815-835. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2012.680482.

Axel Bruns and Jan Schmidt. “Produsage: A Closer Look at Continuing Developments.” Editorial, Special Issue: Exploring Produsage. New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia 17.1 (2011): 3-7.

Axel Bruns. "Exploring the Pro‐Am Interface between Production and Produsage." Paper presented at The Internet Turning 40: The Never-Ending Novelty of New Media Research? conference, Hong Kong, 17-19 June 2010.

Axel Bruns. "Vom Prosumenten zum Produtzer." In Prosumer Revisited: Zur Aktualität einer Debatte , eds. Birgit Blättel-Mink and Kai-Uwe Hellmann. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2010.

Axel Bruns and Mark Bahnisch. "Social Media Volume 1 - State of the Art." Sydney: Smart Services CRC, 2009.

Axel Bruns. "Social Media Volume 2 - User Engagement Strategies." Sydney: Smart Services CRC, 2009.

Axel Bruns. "'Anyone Can Edit': Vom Nutzer zum Produtzer." kommunikation@gesellschaft 10 (2009).

Axel Bruns. "The Future Is User-Led: The Path towards Widespread Produsage." Paper presented at PerthDAC conference, Perth, Western Australia, 15-18 Sep. 2007.

Axel Bruns. "Produsage: Towards a Broader Framework for User-Led Content Creation." Paper presented at Creativity & Cognition conference, Washington D.C., USA, 13-15 June 2007.

Axel Bruns. "Towards Produsage: Futures for User-Led Content Production." In Proceedings: Cultural Attitudes towards Communication and Technology 2006, eds. Fay Sudweeks, Herbert Hrachovec, and Charles Ess. Perth: Murdoch University, 2006. 275-84.

Axel Bruns. "Some Exploratory Notes on Produsers and Produsage." Research residency paper for the Institute for Distributed Creativity, New York. 2 November 2005, also posted at the iDC site.

Produsage Applications

Citizen Journalism

Axel Bruns and Tim Highfield. “Blogs, Twitter, and Breaking News: The Produsage of Citizen Journalism.” In Rebecca Ann Lind, ed., Produsing Theory in a Digital World: The Intersection of Audiences and Production. New York: Peter Lang, 2012.

Axel Bruns. “From Reader to Writer: Citizen Journalism as News Produsage.” In Internet Research Handbook, eds. Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen. Dordrecht, NL: Springer, 2010. 119-134.

Axel Bruns. "Citizen Journalism and Everyday Life: A Case Study of Germany's myHeimat.de." In Journalists, Sources, and Credibility: New Perspectives, eds. Bob Franklin and Matt Carlson. London: Routledge, 2010.

Axel Bruns. "News Produsage in a Pro-Am Mediasphere: Why Citizen Journalism Matters." In News Online: Transformations and Continuities, eds. Graham Meikle and Guy Redden. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Axel Bruns. "Citizen Journalism and Everyday Life: A Case Study of Germany's myHeimat.de." Paper presented at Future of Journalism, Cardiff, 9-10 Sep. 2009.

Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, and Barry Saunders. "Citizen Journalism as Social Networking: Reporting the 2007 Australian Federal Election." In Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives , eds. Stuart Allan & Einar Thorsen. New York: Peter Lang, 2009.

Axel Bruns. "News Blogs and Citizen Journalism." In Kiran Prasad, ed., e-Journalism: New Directions in Electronic News Media. New Delhi: BR Publishing, 2008.

Axel Bruns. "Gatewatching, Gatecrashing: Futures for Tactical News Media." In Megan Boler, ed., Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT P, 2008.

Axel Bruns. Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production. New York: Peter Lang, 2005.

Co-Creative Environments

Sal Humphreys and Axel Bruns. "Collaborative Local Content Creation through edgeX: An Evaluation." Paper presented at the AoIR 2008 conference, Copenhagen, 15-19 Oct. 2008.

Axel Bruns and Sal Humphreys. "Playing on the Edge: Facilitating the Emergence of a Local Digital Grassroots." Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference, Vancouver, 17-20 Oct. 2007.

Produsage Implications

Axel Bruns. "Distributed Creativity: Filesharing and Produsage." In Mashup Cultures, ed. Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss. Vienna: Springer, 2010. 24-37.

Axel Bruns. "The User-Led Disruption: Self-(Re)broadcasting at Justin.tv and Elsewhere." Paper presented at EuroITV, Leuven, Belgium, 4 June 2009.

Axel Bruns. "Reconfiguring Television for a Networked, Produsage Context." Media International Australia 126 (2008): 82-94.

Axel Bruns. "Who Controls the Means of Produsage?" Re-Public 30 Jan. 2008. (Also available in a Greek translation: "Ποιος ελέγχει τα μέσα παραγωγής/κατανάλωσης;")

Produsage and Education

Axel Bruns. "Beyond Difference: Reconfiguring Education for the User-Led Age." Paper presented at ICE 3 (Ideas, Cyberspace, Education) conference at Ross Priory, Loch Lomond, Scotland, 21-23 March 2007.

Produsage and Politics

Axel Bruns and Adam Swift. "g4c2c: Enabling Citizen Engagement at Arms' Length from Government." EDEM 2010: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on E-Democracy, Krems, 6-7 May 2010, eds. Peter Parycek and Alexander Prosser. Krems, Austria: Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft, 2010.

Axel Bruns and Jason Wilson. "Citizen Consultation from Above and Below: The Australian Perspective." In Politics, Democracy and E-Government - Participation and Service Delivery, ed. Christopher Reddick. Hershey, PA: IGI Global. 332-346.

Axel Bruns. "Produtzung: Von medialer zu politischer Partizipation." In Soziale Netze in der digitalen Welt: Das Internet zwischen egalitärer Teilhabe und ökonomischer Macht , eds. Christoph Bieber, Martin Eifert, Thomas Groß, and Jörn Lamla. Frankfurt: Campus, 2009.

Axel Bruns and Jason Wilson. "Citizen Consultation from Above and Below: The Australian Perspective." Paper presented at EDEM 2009, Vienna, 7-8 Sep. 2009.

Axel Bruns. "Produsage, Generation C, and Their Effects on the Democratic Process." Paper presented at MiT 5 (Media in Transition) conference, MIT, Boston, USA, 27-29 April 2007.

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