Posted by: n6905633 on: May 25, 2009
Now that you have read all my wonderful blogs, I bet you are thinking “gee where did she get all this AWESOME information from???” So here is my reference list, enjoy: Bruns, A. 2008. Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond: From Production to Produsage. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. Flew, T. 2008. New Media an [...]
Posted by: n6905633 on: May 22, 2009
Over the past 4 weeks I have introduced you to the wonderful world of produsage. So after exploring Citizen Journalism, Wikipedia and the Pro/Am debate, sadly we have reached the final blog in this epic tale that is KCB 201. After all this there is only one more question in my mind “Are there natural [...]
Posted by: n6905633 on: May 18, 2009
Well this seems to be the crux of every arguments against produsage, amateurism. People don’t know anything apparently, even the co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, seems to be having second thoughts. Bruns states that Sanger believes “Wikipedia needs to be more elitist…which would explicitly undermine the value of the project” (Bruns 2008, 205). At first [...]
Posted by: n6905633 on: May 12, 2009
There have been many online encyclopedias over the history of the internet such as the online version of Britannica, but what makes Wikipedia different? “Traditionally produced, standard encyclopaedias…encapsulate the current state of accepted knowledge” (Bruns, 2008, 103) whilst Wikipedia creates what Bruns (2008, 103) describes as “representations of knowledge.” Put simply, Wikipedia is a “collaborative [...]
Posted by: n6905633 on: May 7, 2009
The name is pretty self explanitary, Terry Flew states that citizen journalism is best defined by the OhMyNews slogan “everyone is a reporter”. Citizen journalism is basically news reported by citizens and posted online. However, with readily accessable new sources written by professionals, why do we need citizen journalism. Axel Bruns (2008, 69) says that citizen journalism “acts [...]
