Axel Bruns spent five years studying English at the University of Queensland. His particular interest is in the field of Cultural and Communication Studies, with a special focus on new and emerging media. Combining this with his love of Progressive Rock, he has finished a thesis on the use of Internet discussion fora by the subcultural community of Prog fans; he is currently working on a thesis which aims to introduce and analyse the emergent genre of Resource Centre Sites on the World Wide Web.
Axel Bruns is also a co-founder and a Production Editor and Webmaster for M/C - A Journal of Media and Culture, the University of Queensland's award-winning Web-based journal which crosses over between the popular and the academic, attempting to engage with the 'popular', and integrate the work of 'scholarship' in media and cultural studies into our critical work. It is a journal that is set to be a premier site of cultural debate on the 'Net. Bruns has published a number of articles in M/C.
Online music fans, who had been left to their own MP3-using devices for a remarkably long time, now worry that their supplies will be rationed by corporate control, and they may even have to pay for their digital music.
