Axel Bruns, Queensland University of Technology

Axel Bruns is a Senior Lecturer in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. He is the author of Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage (2008) and Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (2005), and the editor of Uses of Blogs with Joanne Jacobs (all Peter Lang, New York).

Bruns is a Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, and a Senior Researcher in the Smart Services Cooperative Research Centre. His main research interest is in user-generated content, and he has coined the term produsage to better describe the current paradigm shift towards user-led forms of collaborative content creation which are proving to have an increasing impact on media, economy, law, social practices, and democracy itself. Bruns blogs at snurb.info and produsage.org.