[Air-L] _Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage _

[Kimberly De Vries]

In case you hadn't noticed, the author, Axel Bruns, is speaking at IR 9.0...
;-)

Kim

On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Gerry Mckiernan <gerrymck at iastate.edu>
wrote:

> Friends/
>
> A Most Significant Friday PM Book Discovery:
>
> _Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage _
>
> We the users turned creators and distributors of content are TIME's Person
> of the Year 2006, and AdAge's advertising agency of the year. We form a new
> Generation C. We have MySpace, YouTube, and OurMedia; we run social
> software, and drive the development of Web 2.0. But beyond the hype, what's
> really going on?
>
> In this groundbreaking exploration of our developing participatory online
> culture, Axel Bruns establishes the core principles which drive the rise of
> collaborative content creation in environments from open source through
> blogs and the Wikipedia to Second Life. He shows that what's emerging here
> is no longer just a new form of content production, but a new process for
> the continuous creation and extension of knowledge and art by collaborative
> communities: produsage. The implications of the gradual shift from
> production to produsage are profound, and will affect the very core of our
> culture, economy, society, and democracy.
>
> **Brief Table of Contents**
>
> Introduction
>
> The Key Characteristics of Produsage
>
> Open Source Software Development: Probabilistic Eyeballs
>
> News Blogs and Citizen Journalism: Perpetual Collaboration in Evaluating
> the News
>
> Wikipedia: Representations of Knowledge
>
> Wikipedia and Beyond: The Palimpsest of Human Knowledge
>
> Folksonomies: Produsage and/of Knowledge Structures
>
> Folks and Experts: Beyond the Pro/Am Divide
>
> The Art of Produsage: Distributed Creativity
>
> Media and Creative Industries: New Opportunities or Casual Collapse?
>
> The Produsage Game: Harboring the Hive of Produsers
>
> Social Produsage: Questions of Reputation and Trust
>
> Educating Produsers, Produsing Education: Produsage and the Academy
>
> Produsing Democracy
>
> Conclusion: Production, Produsage, and the Future of Humanity
>
> Bibliography
>
> >>Links to a Full Description and Detailed Table of Contents and
> Introduction Available At<<
>
> [
> http://onlinesocialnetworks.blogspot.com/2008/05/blogs-wikipedia-second-life-and-beyond.html]
>
> OR
>
> [ http://tinyurl.com/49b5vc ]
>
> Enjoy!
>
> /Gerry
>
> Gerry McKiernan
> Associate Professor
> Science and Technology Librarian
> Iowa State University Library
> Ames IA 50011
>
> gerrymck at iastate.edu
>
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Kim De Vries

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