Week 2 -- Produsage -- 1

How might the concept of produsage be applied in your life (personal and/or professional) as it stands today? Are you already a produser? If yes, what do you do? If no, why not?

Sigh -- so very tired -- don't feel like a producer or a user at this red-hot moment! Fatigue will prevent me from discussing Brun's Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage (2008) but I do have lots of thoughts to share in subsequent posts:

• Michael Jackson & Shirky's insularity of fame -- more is different!
• Produsage and Plagiarism
• Paradigm shift Confluence of Weisbord's "community, dignity and meaning"; Weick's emphasis on spaces, feedback loops and sensemaking; Barnard's non-monetary rewards; and Taylor's compartmentalization

So, to address the question directly -- how might produsage be applied, am I a produser? Well, first of all, produsage is content that is produced by users. OR content that is adapted by users. OR content that is communal property, developed by community and under continuous refinement and adaptation. Produsage is generally non-commercial -- a labor of love.

How produsage may be applied will be saved for a subsequent post. Sufficient for the day is the question, am I a produser? In a formal sense, I'd have to say, no. But in a philosophical sense, I'd say yes. I produce tools for students and faculty, presentations and training sessions for clinical research professionals -- all of which are then adopted, adapted, and used as needed -- rarely with attribution.

More later...