Objectives
- to define participation culture
- to find examples of participation culture in the making of media products of your choice
Both Jeff and David talk about forms of participation. Jeff Howe illustrates how crowd sourcing and crowd funding works, this also about participation.
Jeff offers the idea that the internet has enabled people to create content that can be used by big companies. Take istockphoto for example, this website exists to sell content to magazines, newspapers and moving image to film producers, the content is made by professionals and amateurs like you and me. The high supply of content available has lowered to price of content and has made it less lucrative for professionals to work in this area. Jeff states that 3things have led to this phenomena:
- cheap digital camera with high specs
- cheaper and easier to use software like photoshop
- the internet
Task
Using your notes made from these videos, think of any examples you can where a media product has been created by participation culture, collaboration or crowd souring.here are some examples, the first test is picking one that is no older than 5 years old. Have a look and pick one that is not older than this.
- The cosmonaut
- life in a day
- Iron Sky
- Collapsus
- Prison Valley
- Lost Zombies
- Simply Silvio
- Veronica Mars Movie
Find out the following:
- who was behind the making of it?
- what was the budget?
- how was it made?
- how much has it made?
- when was it released?
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