Towards Produsage: Futures for User-Led Content Production
(2006) Towards Produsage: Futures for User-Led Content Production. In Sudweeks, Fay and Hrachovec, Herbert and Ess, Charles, Eds. Proceedings Cultural Attitudes towards Communication and Technology 2006, pages pp. 275-284, Tartu, Estonia.
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Abstract
The increasing prevalence of user-led content production especially in online environments from the Wikipedia to open news publications and open source software development communities is indicative of an ongoing paradigm shift from industrial-style content production to what is here described as produsage: the collaborative, iterative, and user-led production of content by participants in a hybrid user-producer, or produser role. This paper outlines the overall characteristics of produsers and produsage, identifies key questions for the produsage model, and highlights the economic, educational, and democratic potential of produsage.
| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
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| Status: | Published |
| Keywords: | produsage, user-led content production, Internet, online, Web 2.0, social software, produser |
| Subjects: | 400000 Journalism, Librarianship and Curatorial Studies > 400100 Journalism, Communication and Media > 400104 Communication and Media Studies 420000 Language and Culture > 420300 Cultural Studies > 420307 Consumption and Everyday Life |
| ID Code: | 4863 |
| Deposited By: | Bruns, Axel |
| Deposited On: | 07 September 2006 |
| Alternative Locations: | http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/index06.html |
| Copyright Owner: | Copyright 2006 (please consult author) |