Week Ten
Week Ten
Hello all,
This week it's onto the relationship between producer and consumer. This is very relevant as of this moment in which you reader, are reading this piece of writing which I have produced. Neither action would be verified or possible without the other. So let's delve into the idea that the internet has galvanised a world in which the dynamic between consumption and production is being blurred and altered at a great speed.
In collaborative communities the creation of shared content takes place in a networked, participatory environment which breaks down the boundaries between producers and consumers and instead enables all participants to be users as well as producers of information and knowledge. Produsers engage not in a traditional form of content production, but are instead involved in produsage - the collaborative and continuous building and extending of existing content in pursuit of further improvement. Participants in such activities are not producers in a conventional, industrial sense, as that term implies a distinction between producers and consumers which no longer exists; the artefacts of their work are not products existing as discrete, complete packages; and their activities are not a form of production because they proceed based on a set of preconditions and principles that are markedly at odds with the conventional industrial model.
Bowie states in a 1999 interview that their is a demystification process going on between artist and audience. That consumption of music in his case is now more about subgroups and audience experience than a single person to adore such as the Beatles or Presley.
Produsage therefore draws on as broad a range of available knowledge, skills, talents, and ideas as is available, and encourages its participants to apply these diverse capacities to the project at hand. The applicability, relevance, and quality of their contributions is in turn evaluated by other participants as they make their own contributions to the shared effort: those contributions deemed useful and relevant will be further improved upon, while those leading to dead ends of development or introducing irrelevant ideas, concepts, and suggestions to the shared project will remain unused
The communal produsage of content in an information commons, necessarily builds on the assumption that content created in this process will continue to be available to all future participants just as it was available to those participants who have already made contributions. Although on a smaller scale such collaborative content produsage had long been possible within individual enthusiast and specialist communities, only the advent of network technologies enabled larger projects, while simultaneously also further reducing the possibility of providing direct rewards for contributors.
The GNU General Public License and Free Documentation License, the Open Source License, and the Creative Commons licence framework commonly stipulate, that community-held content must remain freely available, that modifications of such content must be made available once again under similar conditions, and that the contributions of individual produsers to the shared project must be recognised and (where appropriate) rewarded. Although content is held communally, therefore, produsers are able to gain personal merit from their individual contributions.
So there you have it folks. An exciting time for all to be sure!
Thanks for reading and I'll see you next week with what I'm sure will be another engaging class topic. Have a good one.
Coldtoesies.
Hello all,
This week it's onto the relationship between producer and consumer. This is very relevant as of this moment in which you reader, are reading this piece of writing which I have produced. Neither action would be verified or possible without the other. So let's delve into the idea that the internet has galvanised a world in which the dynamic between consumption and production is being blurred and altered at a great speed.
In collaborative communities the creation of shared content takes place in a networked, participatory environment which breaks down the boundaries between producers and consumers and instead enables all participants to be users as well as producers of information and knowledge. Produsers engage not in a traditional form of content production, but are instead involved in produsage - the collaborative and continuous building and extending of existing content in pursuit of further improvement. Participants in such activities are not producers in a conventional, industrial sense, as that term implies a distinction between producers and consumers which no longer exists; the artefacts of their work are not products existing as discrete, complete packages; and their activities are not a form of production because they proceed based on a set of preconditions and principles that are markedly at odds with the conventional industrial model.
Bowie states in a 1999 interview that their is a demystification process going on between artist and audience. That consumption of music in his case is now more about subgroups and audience experience than a single person to adore such as the Beatles or Presley.
Produsage therefore draws on as broad a range of available knowledge, skills, talents, and ideas as is available, and encourages its participants to apply these diverse capacities to the project at hand. The applicability, relevance, and quality of their contributions is in turn evaluated by other participants as they make their own contributions to the shared effort: those contributions deemed useful and relevant will be further improved upon, while those leading to dead ends of development or introducing irrelevant ideas, concepts, and suggestions to the shared project will remain unused
The communal produsage of content in an information commons, necessarily builds on the assumption that content created in this process will continue to be available to all future participants just as it was available to those participants who have already made contributions. Although on a smaller scale such collaborative content produsage had long been possible within individual enthusiast and specialist communities, only the advent of network technologies enabled larger projects, while simultaneously also further reducing the possibility of providing direct rewards for contributors.
The GNU General Public License and Free Documentation License, the Open Source License, and the Creative Commons licence framework commonly stipulate, that community-held content must remain freely available, that modifications of such content must be made available once again under similar conditions, and that the contributions of individual produsers to the shared project must be recognised and (where appropriate) rewarded. Although content is held communally, therefore, produsers are able to gain personal merit from their individual contributions.
So there you have it folks. An exciting time for all to be sure!
Thanks for reading and I'll see you next week with what I'm sure will be another engaging class topic. Have a good one.
Coldtoesies.
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