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Produsage

Published 1 January 2007
Axel Bruns
Citations170

TL;DR

The concept of produsage is outlined as a model of describing today's emerging user-led content creation environments and offers new ways of understanding the collaborative content creation and development practices found in contemporary informational environments.

Abstract

This paper outlines the concept of produsage as a model of describing today's emerging user-led content creation environments. Produsage overcomes some of the systemic problems associated with translating industrial-age ideas of content production into an informational-age, social software, Web 2.0 environment. Instead, it offers new ways of understanding the collaborative content creation and development practices found in contemporary informational environments.

Keywords

Social SciencesComputer Science