Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820488660)

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 2007. 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 Wikipedia to Second Life. This book 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.

Author: Steve Jones,Axel Bruns
ISBN-10: 0820488666
ISBN-13: 9780820488660
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 02/06/2008
Pages: 420
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 368
Choice 02/01/2009