Beyond Difference Reconfiguring Education for the User-Led.pptVIP

Beyond Difference:Reconfiguring Education for the User-Led Age Dr Axel Bruns Media Communication Creative Industries Faculty Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, Australia a.bruns@.au – / Key Questions How does education: prepare graduates to become expert users of the information available from user-led content creation environments? prepare graduates to be expert participants in user-led content creation environments? Produsage open source software development online publishing blogs open news – e.g. Slashdot, Indymedia, OhmyNews knowledge management wikis – e.g. Wikipedia social bookmarking – e.g. del.icio.us, digg geotagging – e.g. Google Earth, Frappr multi-user gaming e.g. The Sims, Everquest, Second Life, Spore media sharing and creative practice e.g. Flickr, ccMixter, YouTube, Jumpcut, Current.tv reviews and viral marketing e.g. Epinions, IgoUgo automatic aggregation Google, Amazon, Technorati Produsage Beyond production: ‘anyone can edit’ – users become producers of content content is no longer a distinct product – it is a temporary artefact of an ongoing process, and is continuously evolving usage and production are increasingly, inextricably intertwined strict distinctions between producers, distributors, and consumers no longer apply a new “Generation C” of content produsers? this is produsage Common Characteristics Shared across these environments: Community-Based – the community as a whole, if sufficiently large and varied, can contribute more than a closed team of producers, however qualified Fluid Roles – produsers participate as is appropriate to their personal skills, interests, and knowledges; this changes as the produsage project proceeds Unfinished Artefacts – content artefacts in produsage projects are continually under development, and therefore always unfinished; their development follows evolutionary, iterative, palimpsestic paths Common Property, Individual Merit – contributors permit (non-commercial) community use and a