Wednesday, April 23, 2008

What are the differences between commercial production and community produsage?

Produsage is the activity in where we’re all in the position to act as both users and producers of content, allowing users the ability to interact with each other, access and retrieve content, and respond to it by making their own contributions.
In my point of view, multiple users have potential becoming a producer themselves. Although many people share same knowledge and information around there are smaller fragments which are different. This can be determined by how we look and feel towards a broaden topic. Each person has different characters and attributes, this also allows multiple users to express different ideas.
I believe each person has their own personal story. Each story is different to many other people, they might share common, but still can be determined by differences. And in a business point of view, it slowly leans towards different productions. This is where different ideas can be generated amongst multiple users.
While the internet and technology is growing every day, many users can share information amongst the other people. We together slowly include our personal fragments together and build into a big production.
However, there are also disadvantages with produsages, one being, false and mistaken information can be available which can mislead audiences, and can create errors - deliberate or accidental. On the other hand mistakes introduces the term improvement, allowing advantages this including frequent updates and great involvement in communities.
"The produsage process itself is fundamentally built on the affordances of the techno social framework of the networked environment, then, and here especially on the harnessing of user communities that is made possible by their networking through many-to-many communications media" (Produsage.org, 2008).

"It builds on a simple, yet fundamental proposition: the proposition that to describe the creative, collaborative, and ad hoc engagement with content for which user-led spaces such as the Wikipedia act as examples, the term production is no longer accurate" (Produsage.org, 2008).

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