[Web4lib] _Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage _

[Gerry Mckiernan]

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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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