Produsing Historical Narratives

Keith LyonsUniversity of Canberra

“a new process for the continuous creation and extension of knowledge and art by collaborative communities”

Produsage

Bruns, Axel. (2008) Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage. Digital Formations, 45. New York: Peter Lang.

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=tunnel-creek

The fundamentals of innovative thought haven’t changed since the 18th Century – it’s always been aggregate, filter and connect. The great thinkers of earlier times corresponded extensively because it helped them aggregate information from a wide variety of disciplines and sources. Once they did this, they had to be skilled at filtering the data to figure out what was useful, and then they had to connect up the filtered data to create innovative ideas.

Tim Kastelle (2010)

http://republicofletters.stanford.edu/

http://keithlyons.me/eyewitnesses-memory-and-oral-history/

https://www.thinglink.com/learn

http://audioboo.fm/boos/1386797-replying-to-alan

http://www.paulhagon.com/playground/flickr/streetview/?page=2

we're about to career into a Great Collision — people bumping up against the self-imposed perimeter of their own carefully constructed lives ... It's a collision of preferences against expectations; the lives we want versus the choices we're willing to make; what we give versus why we take; what we find in each other versus what we seek from each other.

It's a collision that's going to happen inside each of us — and then, maybe, result in a collision that happens outside each of us.

Umair Haque (2012)

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Produsing

In collaborative communities the creation of shared content takes place in a networked, participatory environment which breaks down the boundaries between producers and consumers and instead enables all participants to be users as well as producers of information and knowledge – frequently in a hybrid role of produser where usage is necessarily also productive.

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