Needless to say, I am please with yet another class of Ms. Markman's, I find that the learning experience is so unique and allows us all to be so involved, that learning is actually done, not just memorizing.
Three key things I will take from this semester are Produsage, Collective Intelligence, and Participatory Culture.
Produsage because it kind of blurs the line between the amatuer and the professional. Who really is professional these days? We all have the same capabilities to distribute. I am an ETSY fan, and I have my own account, I have the capability of managing my own store ONLINE. This allows me to create and sell, using a free internet source. Artists dont have to rely so heavily on setting up a booth for art festivals as much, they can put it on line and allow others to view it. They can connect their blog to their shop for more advertising to their Etsy shop. This allows me to be actively involved in produsage.
Collective Intelligence was really interesting to learn about, and getting the hands on experience from the Wikipedia project. This gave me a hands on experience and a hands on look at how collective Intelligence works. I was able to put my input in the article, and so was the rest of the world. And the wonderful thing about that, is it allows us to review and change and make these articles perfect so that it can allow others to learn from it. No one person knows everything, so having people around the world contribute allows us to get a more accurate representation.
Participatory Culture, Okay so since we kind of spent a lot of time in class about this, I am going to say that I am participating in this class via Blog Post. I believe I can do the same with Participatory culture in regards to Movie Fandom as well. Each blog post or social networking site Post I make allows me to become apart of the show. It allows me to feel as if I am doing something larger than just watching a television. So I think participatory culture can be divided into levels. From posting online comments, writing new scripts, or creating fan fiction!!
I do agree! And I think the difference between people yelling at their TV and thus expressing their dissatisfaction and the minimal act of liking/posting a negative comment on a show's Facebook page is that in the latter scenario your feedback reaches the producers. They might not notice it or pay attention to it, but it is a closed circle of communication... So overall, I think there is definitely an incremental increase of possible feedback. From a single click to fan footage on YouTube...
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