I think there will always be produsage on the internet, not necessarily the future of the net, but it is more than a trend. Commercial forces may exploit some of the produsage on the internet, but all in all I think they will co-exist for some time. One main reason for this is the need our society has to ‘informational news.’ (Meikle, 7) There has to be an allowance for producing back out what we’ve consumed from society and produsers do this. Internet users escape within this media to find like minded people, to gain the ability to voice their opinions with things they don’t agree with and have the availability to research a world wide range of information (among many other reasons) and this in my opinion will see the existence of produsers for while.
In saying this…
However, is there such a thing as too much information?? As produsers will there come and time where they is too much production coming from users?? Will the effect of produsage become saturated?
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Wednesday, 18 February 2009
Week 5 - Bruns B
Moderation functions online are a way of controlling what is put on the internet. I wouldn’t describe this as defeating the purpose of ‘free for all’ sites like Wikipedia as such because I would explain it as being inevitable. There is a constant need for regulations IRL therefore there is bound to be some reflection on this in cyber societies. There also has to be something put in place because the internet would most likely get majorly out of hand if there wasn’t some sort of restraint to follow by. In my opinion I’m quite glad they do have these functions, with new media having such a large impact on today’s society, I agree that there should be a certain amount of control with these services. I agree with the statement by Bruns that if users don’t have some sort of system to adhere to then “cohesion is likely to be lost.” (Page 4) without some guidelines to follow, it could easily get out of control. The internet still allows for a great deal more freedom of speech in comparison to other media, conventionally our society is used to having policies so I wouldn’t say it’s defeating the object.
Week 5 - Bruns A
My understanding of …
‘Produser’ – A produser is a producer and user of the internet. Someone who uses the internet for finding information, playing games etc and who also produces the internet in the sense that they are contributing to new media. Examples of this can be BlogSpot, because people are adding to what the internet has enabled us to do in terms of our freedom. I think this links in well with the concept of the internet being ‘open architecture.’ People can build on from what has already been built; therefore they are using existing knowledge to further the ‘building’ more.
‘Produsage’ - The “collaborative and continuous building and extending of existing content in pursuit of further improvement.” (Bruns page 2) From the examples given in the reading, Wikipedia and the SIMS I would describe Produsage as something that is produced but is carried on/built by the internet users. It could be seen as someone putting the scaffolding up, and then the users construct the building… if we’re still talking about the internet as open architecture.
‘Intercreativity’ – To me I see inter-creativity as what created ‘open source software’ etc by interlocking what the internet has produced, and the freedom that is available to users. Therefore it’s been produced and produsers are using this intercreativity to build and create their internet. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts when talking about immersive interaction, Habbo Hotel is an example of how users can use the software to ‘build’ in their virtual worlds.
XXXXX Furthering this there is another ‘Virtual world’ on the internet called ‘Second Life.’ I thought I would just mention this to link back to previous topics, I find the name of the world quite explanatory whereby it is making people aware that by interacting on this game it can be their second life, making it seem quite dominant by using life, but still maintains the word second, implying people shouldn’t neglect their first, ‘meatspace’ life. Just a little something extra there.
www.secondlife.com
‘Produser’ – A produser is a producer and user of the internet. Someone who uses the internet for finding information, playing games etc and who also produces the internet in the sense that they are contributing to new media. Examples of this can be BlogSpot, because people are adding to what the internet has enabled us to do in terms of our freedom. I think this links in well with the concept of the internet being ‘open architecture.’ People can build on from what has already been built; therefore they are using existing knowledge to further the ‘building’ more.
‘Produsage’ - The “collaborative and continuous building and extending of existing content in pursuit of further improvement.” (Bruns page 2) From the examples given in the reading, Wikipedia and the SIMS I would describe Produsage as something that is produced but is carried on/built by the internet users. It could be seen as someone putting the scaffolding up, and then the users construct the building… if we’re still talking about the internet as open architecture.
‘Intercreativity’ – To me I see inter-creativity as what created ‘open source software’ etc by interlocking what the internet has produced, and the freedom that is available to users. Therefore it’s been produced and produsers are using this intercreativity to build and create their internet. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts when talking about immersive interaction, Habbo Hotel is an example of how users can use the software to ‘build’ in their virtual worlds.
XXXXX Furthering this there is another ‘Virtual world’ on the internet called ‘Second Life.’ I thought I would just mention this to link back to previous topics, I find the name of the world quite explanatory whereby it is making people aware that by interacting on this game it can be their second life, making it seem quite dominant by using life, but still maintains the word second, implying people shouldn’t neglect their first, ‘meatspace’ life. Just a little something extra there.
www.secondlife.com
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