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I haven't yet had a chance to note my latest two book chapters on produsage [7] here - both in German, and following on from conferences in Germany which I spoke at in 2008 and 2009:
The reader Prosumer Revisited [8], from the Prosumer Revisited [6] conference which I attended earlier this year, contains my chapter "Vom Prosumenten zum Produtzer [9]", which argues that the 'prosumer' is no longer a useful term to describe the changes in participation and content creation which are occurring today, and provides a concise overview of produsage, or Produtzung, as an alternative. Probably a little more clearly than I did in my conference presentation [10] itself!
The book, edited by the conference chairs Birgit Blättel-Mink and Kai-Uwe Hellmann, is now available from the German Amazon site [8], or from the publisher, VS-Verlag [11].
[12]And the book Soziale Netze in der digitalen Welt [12], edited by Christoph Bieber, Martin Eifert, Thomas Groß, and Jörn Lamla, follows on from a conference in Gießen at which I presented in 2008 [13], but my contribution, "Produtzung: Von medialer zu politischer Partizipation [14]", takes a considerably longer view of potential developments in political participation than the more strongly citizen journalism-focussed paper at the conference itself; it explores similar ideas to my 2008 journal article for Information Polity [15], in fact.
While the book covers considerably more ground than 'only' politics, as its title - social networks in the digital world - implies, I think it's the four chapters on social media and politics which will attract particular interest in Germany: after all, the country is experiencing a time of considerable political upheaval, with a new centre-right coalition government, a newly fractured left whose current state recalls the dark days of the bitter SPD/USPD split in the early Weimar Republic, and the emergence of new single-issue groups such as the German Pirate Party [16]. Social media will have a key role to play in attracting new members to these parties (or enticing old ones back to active membership) and in promoting their various causes. My chapter should make for a useful companion piece to my recent interview for Polar Magazin [17].
Links
[1] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/47
[2] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/113
[3] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/22
[4] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/46
[5] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/101
[6] http://snurb.info/taxonomy/term/104
[7] http://produsage.org/
[8] http://www.amazon.de/Prosumer-Revisited-Aktualität-einer-Debatte/dp/3531169351/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257725093&sr=8-1
[9] http://snurb.info/files/Vom Prosumenten zum Produtzer (final).pdf
[10] http://snurb.info/node/935
[11] http://www.vs-verlag.de/index.php;do=show/site=w/book_id=19164/sid=11615207784af75b5cd0cad589202952
[12] http://www.amazon.de/Soziale-Netze-digitalen-Welt-Schriftenreihe/dp/3593390132
[13] http://snurb.info/node/891
[14] http://snurb.info/files/Produtzung - von medialer zu politischer Partizipation.pdf
[15] http://snurb.info/files/Life beyond the Public Sphere - Information Polity.pdf
[16] http://www.piratenpartei.de/
[17] http://produsage.org/node/71
[18] http://www.technorati.com/tag/Produtzung
[19] http://www.technorati.com/tag/collaboration
[20] http://www.technorati.com/tag/participation
[21] http://www.technorati.com/tag/politics
[22] http://www.technorati.com/tag/produsage
[23] http://www.technorati.com/tag/prosumer
[24] http://del.icio.us/tag/Produtzung
[25] http://del.icio.us/tag/collaboration
[26] http://del.icio.us/tag/participation
[27] http://del.icio.us/tag/politics
[28] http://del.icio.us/tag/produsage
[29] http://del.icio.us/tag/prosumer