According to Bruns (2008) “There is an absence of producers, distributors, or consumers, and the presence of a seemingly endless string of users acting incrementally as content producers by gradually extending and improving the information present in the information commons, the value chain begins and ends (but only temporarily, ready for further development) with content.”
….ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm….
…ok so what I think he was trying to say is that there are not enough original creators , nowadays it is just people “creating” something based on, or somewhat relating to something that has already been created.
Take for example, the ridiculous amount of “remake” movies being created nowadays, EG: Nightmare on elm street, Friday the 13th, Halloween… and they’re just the three original horror series that have been remade in the past few years… yes I know that was a very loose example of produsage.
FAN FICTION would be a better example… got ya! You were scared that I wasn’t going to mention it, weren’t you?!
Fan fiction being stories and comics created by fans based on celebrities and characters from other created stories and publications.
For example, fans creating stories based on Star wars characters or Harry Potter… usually if it were a Harry Hotter one, it relates to a romance between Harry and Malfoy, so it’s not as commonly discussed in public…
Our good friend… lets call her GAGA, as they share the same name… mentioned the other day that when she was younger… I’m still not convinced that it was when she was younger or current… used to read fan fiction about the Australian soap opera, Neigbours… she explained that it was just fan’s writing their own stories about the show and placing the characters into their own story lines.
Even books based on television series, or movies, can be considered to be produsage. Hit television series are always followed by novels based on the series. The series writer does not write these novels or anyone who has anything to do with the series, however they become recognized as official novels for the series… yet another perfect example of produsage… I hope no one else thought of that!
Although sometimes produsage is interesting, or entertaining, isn’t it a little obsessive? It’s just like saying, “I’m completely and utterly obsessed with this series/film that I’m going to spend my teenage, and sometimes adult, life writing stories about these characters and call myself creative…”
Ok yes, its not THAT obsessive, but its still a little weird… but is it stealing? Technically these characters and stories they’re reusing would be copyrighted, so therefore these producers should need permission to create anything based on them… interesting…
That’s all for now…
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