About
Welcome to Gatewatching.org.
This site is a group blog run by the three of us - Barry Saunders, Jason Wilson, and Axel Bruns. What we’re looking to do here is to track and analyse the further development of the phenomenon of citizen journalism, in Australia - where we’re all based - and elsewhere. We’re also part of the team behind an ARC Linkage research project into citizen journalism which operated youdecide2007.org and qlddecides.com.
The term ‘gatewatching’, which describes the practice of observing and commenting on other sites’ news that is common in citizen journalism, originates from Axel’s 2005 book Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production.
