Participatory Culture

Participatory Culture
What is a participatory culture?


One-half of all teens have created media content
One-third of teens who se the internet have shared what they producde.
These teens are involved in what we call participatory culture.

e.g; Youtube, Wikipedia, blogger.
Typically, A participatory culture has relatively low barriers to artistic exression and civil engagement.

Informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed on to novices.

Examples of websites and forums that you can encourage tihs sort of participatory online behavior:
- Wikipedia
- Youtube/Google video

- SNS (facebook, myspace, Bebo)

- Linux/OpenSolaris - Open source projects

- Flickr/Photobucket/Imageshack - image sharing websites
- Online newspapers allow participation of comments and views- sharing news and feelings.
Creative commons license - Allowing the use of work in whole or part and distribute it as you like, sometimes allowing them to make money, or just as long as they attribute them as the author.

The sharing of knowledge for others benefit, or knowledge/reference. Free.
Participatory culture is a neologism in reference of, but opposite to a Consumer culture — in other words a culture in which private persons (the public) do not act as consumers only, but also as contributors or producers (prosumers). The term is most often applied to the production or creation of some type of published media. Recent advances in technologies (mostly personal computers and the Internet) have enabled private persons to create and publish such media, usually through the Internet. This new culture as it relates to the internet has been described as Web 2.0.

Games being shaped around public participatory culture:
- Second Life