While I have an overall understanding of produsage, the 4 principles described Brun are a little difficult for me to comprehend:
1. Open participation, communal evaluation
2. Fluid heterarchy, ad hoc meritocracy
3. Unfinished artefacts, continuing process
4. Common property, individual rewards
I found a few websites that were helpful in helping me to further understand the 4 principles that Brun describes:
http://produsage.org/node/11
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Produsage
Even with the additional readings, I still struggled with writing formal educational conditions for the 4th principle - Common property, individual rewards.
I am thinking it would be along the lines of intellectual property instances for organizations. Wherein, a collaborative effort to determine a certain outcome resulted in a second outcome on an individual's contribution. However, in this instance, the contributor was under an agreement with the organization, and so was not able to gain recognition or reward due to the agreement with the organization.
Of course this is a negative instance, where the individual could not be rewarded financially, however, they could receive recognition as a form of reward.
Barb, I totally agree with you! If I were going to make a topic easier to understand by diving it into 4 key principles, I'd make sure those principles were easy to understand- Bruns principles required me to do a bit more research to figure out what he was trying to say! I found the Wikipedia (the ultimate produsage) to be helpful in deciphering what Bruns was saying! You're not alone!
ReplyDeleteI think that Wikipedia got a lot of hits for this topic this week. I had to turn there as well for clarification.
DeleteThank goodness ehc14! I was about to give up for the day, thank you so much for your comment! It's always nice to know you're not alone. Okay, you've motivated me to continue! I appreciate your comments very much!
ReplyDeleteI am right with you as well, It took quite a bit of online research to actually comprehend exactly what a produsage is, let alone how to create one! I researched a few lesson plans using web 2.0 to try and figure out how it could be used in a formal aspect and that is what helped me out the most. I agree with the both of you that although Bruns gave us an outline, he still kind of left us in the dark! Maybe he did this on purpose, his whole idea was for use to use web 2.0 and collaborate with each other to try and figure out what he was saying ;)
ReplyDeleteI hope this helps. Having read the article, this is how I understand Bruns' principles.
ReplyDelete1. Open participation, communal evaluation
Project is a community effort which can be critiqued and edited by all members
2. Fluid heterarchy, ad hoc meritocracy
There are no built in power structures among users. No one user's rank can supersede the rights of another user to contribute or consume
3. Unfinished artifacts, continuing process
There is no complete project. All projects are fluid in nature and are continuously updated with no scheduled regularity. An artifact for example could be any previous version of a Wikipedia page before its most recent update.
4. Common property, individual rewards
Common property is kind of self explanatory. Individual rewards does not necessarily refer to individual monetary rewards. Rewards can be social, intrinsic, or extrinsic in nature. Individual rewards are the motivating factor behind a users actions in both producing or using.
Casey, thanks so much for the additional information on produsage; it is most helpful!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the links and info - that helped a lot!
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone, this makes me feel better. I was with you Barb and all the comments were helpful.
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