gatewatching

Recent public spats between mainstream industrial journalism and citizen-led media – news bloggers and citizen journalists – actually mask their increasing interdependence, and obscure the advantages to be gained on both sides by recognising and nurturing this. A comparison between two recent moments of exchange between the “MSM” and its citizen counterpart illustrates both the [...]

Welcome to Gatewatching.org. This site is a group blog run by the three of us - Barry Saunders, Jason Wilson, and me, Axel Bruns. (We may rope in a few more of the usual suspects over the next few months - watch this space…) What we’re looking to do here is to track and analyse [...]

So, I’ve been kicking around on Facebook lately. My colleagues have posted some interesting analysis of Facebook, which I am still thinking about. I like Facebook, in a way that I never got into Myspace. I’ve caught up with friends from highschool who I haven’t seen for years, even played scrabble with them, but there’s [...]