Tag Archives: ABC

Behind the Scenes at ABC Radio National: Co-creative feature making

Recently, I was lucky enough to find myself sitting in a production session for the upcoming ABC Radio National program to be broadcast on 360documentaries, New Beginnings. New Beginnings is a project housed within ABC Pool and is the latest co-creative production … Continue reading

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From Fringe to Formalisation – Creative Institutional Practices within ABC Pool

Spent today writing and developing an argument around the fringe to formalisation transition within the production of cultural artifacts. Essentially it is addressing collaborative practices between an institutional online community as a project is produced for broadcast on the ABC … Continue reading

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Ethnography, Assemblage, Poolies

In preparation for the upcoming CCI Symposium engaging in “Socio-Cultural Research and Australia’s Policy Challenges,” I have revisited some methodology literature. I am participating in the Media Ethnography workshop (appropriate given the position of my research) and have been reading other … Continue reading

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Is This Thing On? Ethnographic Interview Techniques for PhD Research

Armed with my constructed grounded theory outlining who the stakeholders are within institutional online communities and how they negotiate their interests, I am preparing to embark on interview grandness! I have a swag of literature under my belt to support any … Continue reading

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So… Why Research ABC Pool?

In my “post-confirmation era”, I have found some time to stop, take stock and critically reflect on what I am researching. The confirmation process encouraged me to focus on what my research questions are, conduct a preliminary analysis, and construct … Continue reading

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Web Histories: the transforming of Public Service Broadcasting online

On Friday, I had the opportunity to listen to some of the leading researchers and academics present their knowledge on the position of the Public Service Broadcaster within the online environment. Web Histories is a forthcoming book that investigates what … Continue reading

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QUT, ABC Pool, and Me as Community Manager

Recently I was in Brisbane presenting some of my research and the rare occasion of my entire research team being in the same location presented itself. That means Associate Professor Axel Bruns from the QUT ARC Centre of Excellence for … Continue reading

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Beginning to Answer Focused Concepts

After spending hours/days in research data, my method quickly shifted to coding incident by incident – the best way to compare my data to other data. This method allows to move quickly and find new active categories within the data … Continue reading

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Community Manager Tasks at a Public Broadcaster (ABC)

If you have been following my posts over the past week, you would probably realise that yes, I have become a data nerd. What’s more interesting is that I am kind of liking this data coding thang which may surprise … Continue reading

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From Sensitizing Concepts to Focused Coding

Sensitizing Concepts As highlighted in my last post, my sensitizing concepts (Blumer 1969)from the research project outset were: User led innovation Archive release Mod Bods (Community Editors) Moderation at the ABC Open source Crowd sourcing Communities surrounding UGC My recent … Continue reading

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