Participatory

1.Introduction 1A. Statement 2. Participatory culture, Everyone can join 2A. Media convergence, Everything is connected 2B. The Doujin Circle 2.1. Gems or trash 2.1A. Collective Intelligence Filtering 2.2. Ametuer or Professional 3. Social Aspects of Participatory cultures 1. Introduction Are participatory cultures always a positive force in the age of convergence? As the media world keeps evolving, new forms of content delivery systems are constantly being made and interlaced

they have chosen 500 of The personally responsible, 400 of the participatory citizens, and 100 justice oriented citizens for the best colonization on Nevermore. The reason the United States of America has chosen 500 personally responsible citizens, because they will help the colony

free labor, and enclosure.” (Peterson, 2008). Media corporations encourage users to view their contributions to the web as participatory and inclusive. However, user-generated content is more appropriately understood as exploitative. This paper will explore the ways in which user-generated content supports and deepens hegemonic power structures under the guise of a participatory culture. This essay will outline the ways in which internet users are empowered to perform labour for free and how this work

paradigm based on my research background and working experience. I have taken my position of participatory paradigm. Participatory paradigm is relatively new concept of paradigm in social science theories(Heron & Reason, 1997). It is derived from qualitative research tradition. Participatory paradigm has been growing in recent years and particularly in the developing countries. Chambers(1986: 1) describes participatory paradigm as “…[c]oherent and mutually supportive pattern of concepts, values, methods

392). In other words, people are acting as “prosumers,” a term coined by Alvin Toffler, by consuming and producing media texts of their own (Toffler, 1989). The Internet provides a space where this participatory culture can thrive. Discussion-based forums and boards are especially active places where fans can interact. According to Jenkins, "message boards and forums become knowledge communities that structure and organize the fans’ knowledge about a particular

What are the key elements for a successful participatory children’s theatre production The participatory theatre for children does not only entertain children with the fantasy world but the aim of this theatre is providing high quality arts projects for young audience and open the door for children to be more cooperative and social development from involving the performance. Fortunately, children have huge enthusiasm to response the performance that it is different from adult character who do

community on what is corrupt in their neighborhoods. Building solidarity that will make use of our diversity and perseverance. empowering people in and around the community. We are reaching our goal by taking 6 weeks out of the summer to implement our Participatory Action Research (PAR). Our research seeks to understand the world (in this case community) by trying to change it, collaboratively and following reflection. We research problems in our communities or neighborhoods that needs to be changed to make

student agreement. Attending class in a participatory class is import as in order to participate you need to be there. I plan to attend every class to the best of my abilities. I do not make a promise that I’ll attend every class because there might be situations that I can’t attend class such as an emergency or sickness. In these cases, I will inform the teacher if I cannot make it to class. I plan to follow up on this by reminding myself that this is a participatory class and that I need to attend it

analysis phase was excluded. In addition, challenges emerged in literature and correspondent suggestions will be listed and discussed. 2.4.2 Participatory Design From the literature, it can be seen that participatory design method is a common guideline for involving older people into design process [15, 18, 19, 24, 25]. Prompting can be a major benefit of participatory design. In Lindsay et al’s study, they used a video to prompt older people to talk about what the possible product could be in user requirement

like broadcasting, print, and film created a consumer culture in the public. Participants would consume the media they could find, and that was the extent of their engagement with a piece of media. But during the digital age, participatory culture has exploded. Participatory culture is a concept coined by Henry Jenkins where consumers take part in both the consumption and the production of media. The advent of computers facilitates a low barrier of entry for creation of digital media and its propagation