Week 7 - Lecture Response

Producers and Produsage

Produsage - 'the collaborative and continuous building and extending of existing content in pursuit of further improvement' (Bruns 2005).

The more I read about this topic the more I liked the idea of user led content production, better known as produsage.

For example, and as mentioned by Bruns, Wikipedia is a perfect example of Produsage and is where 'the production of ideas takes place in a collaborative, 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'.

I think this is a fantastic way of users getting the best opportunity to showcase their knowledge and allow participation in the sharing of knowledge on a interactive platform.

I believe if users have or think they may have the knowledge to contribute to a topic then they should be given the opportunity, and of course the correct procedures should be in place to ensure that what they have stated is correct.

On the other hand there is nothing wrong with the tradition of Producers, I just believe now that we have the technology and opportunity to contribute to worldwide knowledge we should use it.

References:

Bruns, A 2005, Towards Produsage Futures for User-Led Content Production, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Retrieved 17 September 2011 via Learning at Griffith site, Griffith University.