On Tuesday I'm heading off to Europe again, for a whirlwind tour of three conference in three countries within ten days. In combination, they provide a pretty good overview of my current research interests - I'll be presenting what is more or less an English-language version of my paper on prosumption and produsage from the Prosumer Revisited [8] conference in March at a conference called Transforming Audiences [9] in London; from there I'm heading to Vienna for the 2009 Conference on Electronic Democracy [10] to present a paper co-authored with Gatewatching.org [11]'s Jason Wilson which discusses various developments in e-government and e-democracy in Australia (including the DBCDE government consultation blog trial [12] and GetUp!'s Project Democracy [13]); and finally I'm off to Cardiff for the Future of Journalism [14] conference where I'm presenting the outcomes of my interviews with some of the principals behind Germany's successful community news platform myHeimat.de [15]. (This Future of Journalism conference is not to be confused with the MEAA's somewhat lacklustre series of 'Future of Journalism' talkfests in Australia [16] last year, incidentally...) Along the way, I guess I'll also take a little time off to celebrate my recent promotion to Associate Professor...

I've now posted up the Powerpoints and (where available) full papers for these presentations - I'll try to add audio as soon as possible after the presentations, too. Here they are:

• Axel Bruns. "From Prosumer to Produser: Understanding User-Led Content Creation. [17]" Paper presented at Transforming Audiences [9], London, 3-4 Sep. 2009.
• Axel Bruns and Jason Wilson. "Citizen Consultation from Above and Below: The Australian Perspective. [18]" Paper presented at EDEM 2009 [10], Vienna, 7-8 Sep. 2009. (Full PDF [19])
• Axel Bruns. "Citizen Journalism and Everyday Life: A Case Study of Germany's myHeimat.de. [20]" Paper presented at Future of Journalism [14], Cardiff, 9-10 Sep. 2009. (Full PDF [21])

Technorati : EDEM 2009 [22], Future of Journalism 2009 [23], Transforming Audiences 2009 [24], citizen journalism [25], e-democracy [26], myHeimat [27], produsage [28]
Del.icio.us : EDEM 2009 [29], Future of Journalism 2009 [30], Transforming Audiences 2009 [31], citizen journalism [32], e-democracy [33], myHeimat [34], produsage [35]