University of Canberra

• Dr Robert Fitzgerald (Project Leader) is a Research Fellow in the Learning Communities Research Area . He has over twenty years experience in the application of technology to teaching and learning. His current research work involves technologies that are designed to support social networking, collaborative learning and knowledge creation such as online computer games, wikis, blogs and team meeting systems.
• Associate Professor Stephen Barass is the Co-Director of the Sonic Communications Research Group at the University of Canberra . Stephen has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles, and regularly contributes to international conference committees and invited expert workshops. His research interests include mixed reality, interaction design, interactive museum exhibits, multimodal information displays, sonification, generative art, and new interfaces for musical expression.
• Associate Professor John Campbell is Director of Research, Information Sciences and Engineering. A major focus of his research is on how users interact through information systems in the social world and, in particular, the ways in which organisational decision-making and community interaction are enacted through collaborative technologies.
• Dr Sam Hinton is a lecturer in new media in the School of Creative Communication . He teaches first year media production and, with Dr Whitelaw , third year new media. Both of these subjects make extensive use of social software to enhance learning outcomes and the student learning experience. Dr Hinton's research interests include the uses of the Internet as a social technology, the social and conceptual dimensions of emerging digital media forms, and computer games and gaming theory.
• Professor Yoni Ryan is the Director of the CELTS at the University of Canberra. She has a particular interest in 'new generation students' and the implications of new technologies for student engagement in university learning.
• Dr Mitchell Whitelaw is Head of Media/Multimedia Production at UC. Dr Whitelaw has taught digital media theory and production at institutions including the University of Adelaide, UNSW and UTS . He has published internationally in the history, theory and criticism of creative practices in new media and sound.

Project Collaborators

• Dr 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 (New York: Peter Lang, 2008), and has also authored Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production (New York: Peter Lang, 2005) and edited Uses of Blogs with Joanne Jacobs (New York: Peter Lang, 2006). Bruns' research interests are in produsage (or collaborative user-led content development), online publishing, online journalism, virtual communities, creative industries, creative hypertext writing, and popular music studies.
• Adrian Miles is a Senior Lecturer in Cinema and New Media at RMIT University, Melbourne, and is coordinator of the labsome honours research studio. He was formally Senior Researcher in New Media at the InterMedia Lab , University of Bergen. He is an internationally recognised theorist and creator of hypermedia and this academic work has been published in numerous peer reviewed publications. He also is a networked interactive video developer and these applied projects have been exhibited internationally. Adrian's research practice concentrates on hypermedia, interactive narrative, networked interactive video.