Week 7 Produsage starting notes

Notes: Produsage - concept of 'artifacts'
Artifacts are temporary - concept of never completed — What are some actual EXAMPLES of these artifacts. How can something on which people work, invest time, invest energy, HOLD their interest if it is never completed? Bruns presents info/concepts - Bruns offers nothing to tie to reality/make relevant. Examples!!
The socialization - 'meritocracy' - smacks of other 'group theories' - any sociology group theory phenomena that shed light on this? Does this theory, or this type of group socialization process, have a context?? Does this particular process describe a specific type of socialization - activity-oriented/focused socialization?? Are there other types of socialization processes? Is this one rudimentary? It smacks of some sort of Darwinian process - social prominence/importance based on merit - merit based on quality of contribution to group's priority focus/activity - failure diminishes social merit/prominence - eventual fade to outskirts of 'group' - exit group. I would have liked to know more about this process of socialization. It would also most likely further define Brun's produsage. Is there a parallel to literacy that unfolds with the ever-increasing use of the internet/www?? The literacy movement of oral to written and back to a new orality….are there any large, overarching movements/patterns such as this one that apply to socialization? Do typical socialzation theories hold up when applied to the electronic gathering of humans - for lack of a better term - the "web-troop"? Or do theories break down? Do we see a more rudimentary process unfold as people gather to interact electronically, or are new theories needed to account for this newer type of 'social group.' These are the questions I would like to address. The potential answers also help answer the question of "Why?" WHY WIKIS??

Week 7 Waw page
Brun on Produsage

Produsage - Intentional and Unintentional

"Social media technologies collapse multiple audiences into single contexts, making it
difficult for people to use the same techniques online that they do to handle multiplicity
in face-to-face conversation. This article investigates how content producers navigate
‘imagined audiences’ on Twitter."
This quote is from an article on social media that suggests that social media creates a new type of interaction/socialization.
"I Twitter Honestly," is linked for convenience.

Sociologists/psychologists, I believe, have their hands full as they seek to describe, quantify and qualify human behavior and interaction
in a context that humans had never before encountered.

"Constructing the self" examines the use of the MySpace homepage as the user invents/reinvents
their identity.

These begin to answer WHY. I realize another facet that, at least in my opinion, is missing that would help me understand WHY WIKIS.