Week 7 - Response to Content

We looked at ‘Produsage’ and what it is exactly in today’s lecture.  Dr Axel Bruns; lecturer at QUT has done some extensive research on the topic, thus an expert in the field. My understanding of the word is as follows: There is so much information in the world for every subject and every topic can be debateable and open for interpretation. Someone will have had different experiences to the next person due to the internet sites they have looked up, television shows they have watched, countries they have visited and people they have met and experiences they have had. “Produsage is a celebration of the incomplete” (Nicolis, J 2011, pers. comm., 6 September). It allows people to add to information that is already available rather than re-creating new material. It gives us a chance to build upon material and collaborate with other participants to achieve a common goal.

Well we all know about generation X and generation Y but have you ever heard of the new generation… Generation C? Standing for not just ‘content’ & creativity’ but goes hand in hand with ‘casual collapse’ of mass media & it seems that as times are changing the Encyclopoedia Britannica is moving aside for the popular Wikipedia (Bruns 2006, p.1).Generation C have the power and with their technical advantage and new doors opening in every direction with abundance of social media sites, open forums to exercise their citizen journalism skills they are in their element to move forward and collaborate with their peers.

                                       (as producer)


Content >>>>>>>>        Produser      >>>>>>Content


                                          (as user)

Above image shows that the participation of the contributors is open.

References:

Produsage.org, 2007, image, viewed 6 September 2011, http://produsage.org/produsage

Bruns, A, 2006, Futures for user-led content production, p.1 viewed 6 September, 2011, http://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholarq=cache:7SUXrLXLLcIJ:scholar.google.com/+produsage&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5