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

[Michael Zimmer]

And it is in the "Digital Formations" book series edited by AOIR's  
Steve Jones.


On May 10, 2008, at 12:33 AM, Kimberly De Vries wrote:

> 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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