Produsers and Produsage

Snurb — Thursday 22 September 2005 11:05

'Anyone Can Edit': Understanding the Produser - Guest Lecture at SUNY, Buffalo / New School, NYC / Brown Univ. / Temple Univ.

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Institute for Distributed Creativity
Cultural Studies Concentration of Eugene Lang College

'Anyone Can Edit': Understanding the Produser

The Mojtaba Saminejad Lecture

  • 28 September, 6 p.m. - SUNY Buffalo
  • 11 October, 10 a.m. - New School, New York City
  • 12 October, 5 p.m. - Brown University, Providence
  • 14 October, 12.30 p.m. - Temple University, Philadelphia

Recent decades have seen the dual trend of growing digitization of content, and of increasing availability of sophisticated tools for creating, manipulating, publishing, and disseminating that content. Advertising campaigns openly encourage users to 'Rip. Mix. Burn.' and to share the fruits of their individual or collaborative efforts with the rest of the world. The Internet has smashed the distribution bottleneck of older media, and the dominance of the traditional producer > publisher > distributor value chain has weakened. Marshall McLuhan's dictum 'everyone's a publisher' is on the verge of becoming a reality - and more to the point, as the Wikipedia proudly proclaims, 'anyone can edit.'

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Snurb — Thursday 28 July 2005 11:46

iDC Residency

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Later this year I'll head over to the U.S. for a couple of conferences and a brief research residency with the Institute for Distributed Creativity - I'll be in Buffalo on 26-29 September and New York City on 10-15 October. My host Trebor Scholz has now posted some information about the residency on the iDC site.

This residency marks the first steps in the next stage of my current research agenda, which started with the work on [weblink:28] and currently continues with the [weblink:158] book and other research on blogs and wikis (also in a teaching environment). As part of this work I've introduced the concept of the produser - marking the move from a production/consumption dichotomy to user-led (or at least user-involved) production. This also goes well beyond the 'prosumer' idea - which (seeing as it retains the '(con)sumer' bit) doesn't transcend that dichotomy.

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