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Social media volume 2 - user engagement strategies

These reports provide a toolkit for organisations as they come to terms with social media spaces and develop their strategies for engagement with their communities of users and followers

Social media: Tools for user-generated content

For organisations which choose to incorporate social media elements into their online presence, this report provides material to inform that choice and guide the structural decisions which follow from it

Social innovation, user-created content and the future of the ABC and SBS as public service media

In their submission to the ABC and SBS Review, currently in progress, Stuart Cunningham and Terry Flew argue that how national public broadcasters respond to changes in the media environment arising from digitisation, convergence and changing societal needs and expectations can be best understood as a question of social innovation

Reconfiguring television for a networked, produsage context

The rise of user-led content creation and distribution, or produsage, is by now well recognised

Playing on the edge: facilitating the emergence of a local digital grassroots

edgeX Is conceived of as a Website which allows users from the Ipswich region to blog and upload text, audio and video, as well as engage deeply with one another's content, with a strong geographically local focus

Investigating the impact of the blogosphere: using PageRank to determine the distribution of attention

As the blogosphere continues to grow, even doubling its size every six months, this paper investigates its apparent impact on the overall Web itself

Methodologies for mapping the political blogosphere: an exploration using the IssueCrawler research tool

This paper uses the case of Guantanamo detainee David Hicks as a case study, mapping the distributed discussions of this case in the Australian blogosphere

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