Axel Bruns

He completed a PhD at the University of Queensland in 2002 that analysed the emerging Website genre of Resource Centre Sites such as indymedia and Slashdot.

"[4] His findings in this formulative thesis have spurred much of his further research into the online media field, including two of his key concepts, Produsage and Gatewatching.

Bruns is an expert on the impact of user-led content creation in the fields of produsers and produsage, blogging, gatewatching and citizen journalism and learning and teaching in the digital age.

'His current work focuses especially on the study of user participation in social media spaces such as Twitter in the context of acute events.

"[9] Bruns' contemporaries and influences in the fields of citizen journalism, produsage and gatewatching include: Henry Jenkins, Yochai Benkler, Clay Shirky, J.D.