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Our powerpoint presentation slides
This is our powerpoint presentation slides that Jorge (Me), Sry and Phillip presented in Week 4 on “An introduction to Participatory Culture”.
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How does the use of location-aware applications change our experience of the world?
The use of location-aware applications can change the people experience of the world where it demonstrate the use of that person searching location status. Many location-aware application has a feature where people with the same app can browse through the map to find that user location status for e.g. an individual that has been accepted upon that users’ request from that location-aware application can search for that friend or a family member, and it identify the person location status through a map with icons appear on his/her smartphone or tablet. Location-aware applications can also search different shops or places onto the map to locate the user nearest location as a GPS technological format.
Foursquare “check ins”
I think foursquare is a really good example of location-aware application where it deals with location from users mobile device with interaction. There is feature where it only shared with other people when the user decides whether they want to “check in” to tell Foursquare their particular location in private or they can ‘check ins’ with a friend or a family member to share their location status. For e.g. a mother of that child is worried that this son hasn’t arrived at home at a certain time so she will use her Foursquare app to map out the location status of our son.
Foursquare 2013, Privacy 101: What we think when we think about privacy,Foursqaure Headquarters, New York City, viewed 10 Oct 2013, <https://foursquare.com/privacy/>
Is location awareness a momentous development or merely a passing fed?
I think that location awareness has become a momentous development rather than a passing fed where the future of technology is really approach very fast in terms of people uses smartphones and tablets to deal with mapping and navigational purposes.
Here a YouTube video explaining the user’s adaptation of location technologies that are bringing experience, navigation approach to change our perception of the world.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBI3oqkVBXQ
Does the walled garden approach of Apple’s App Store foster or stifle innovation?
Looking at both the Apple walled garden approach to development for their mobile devices, it is tempting to simply say that it is stifling creativity, because the apps need to be approved for sale before they get installed into devices.
However is it?
The advantages of a walled garden are simple: Create a cost for the developer, and you automatically filter out the ones that are not serious about the product they are making.
The Apple Store and Apple products also have one key advantage. Apple devices already have credit card details available. A developer is far more easily assured of getting an income from their work, because there is already a payment system that the consumers of Apple products are used to.
Also, they have been around a lot longer. The Play Store (formerly Android Marketplace) is a comparatively new development.
The result: Apple still has a far larger number of developers:
There is also another problem. By abandoning control over the content, the door has been left open for a large number of low quality apps. Apps that do one thing, and do it poorly.
And the best apps are generally hosted by both operating systems anyway.
The walled garden environment keeps out the poor quality apps. When Apple must give its approval, then the developers have to work hard to bring their apps up to scratch. And it also keeps out things like malware and pornography.
In the walled garden analogy, it is a garden where the gardeners are not allowed to bring weeds in, and are not allowed to trim the hedges into certain shapes. Within those strictures, anything goes.
But, unless you want specific benefits of either platform, there is not really all that much difference on the consumer end. With the Apple operating system, you get stability, with the Android system you are able to get things like pornography which are not available on the Iphone.
Question: How are mobile phones being used in the developing world?
The mobile phone is an equaliser. They require very little by the way of infrastructure. A cellphone tower can cover a large area, without having to lay any cables or optical fibres. Before the advent of the mobile phone, such services were simply not available, even to wealthy people in places like the favelas of Brazil. The government and utility services simply did not reach them.
So, they have been able to use stolen, hacked and legally bought phones where they could not buy them before. And they use them in ways that people in the West were using them. For example, “beeping”, where you dial a phone and then hang up. This is a good way to get the attention of a caller, so they can either call you back or simply go to a prearranged location or take any other prearranged action. They are also used as a defacto public phone. One telephone can service a wide community, with customers of the owner of such a phone paying the owner a fee to make calls.
Are social media becoming political media?
I think people in nowadays are not aware with the situation about politicians adopting to social media as an instant communication tool. Social media can give people decision to discuss politics to the politician members to spread the message throughout their Facebook page wall or in twitter with a tweet that seeks their attention, and also raising awareness of the political uses of social media platforms for e.g. seeking interaction throughout Facebook and twitter from the latest update on the federal election campaign happen on 7th September 2013 are shaping up with the votes. Social media has become an important role in political campaign to shape people opinion via online, and it get people to contribute in public.
The Conversation 2013, Moving politics online: How Australian Mainstream Media portray social media as political tool, The Conversation Media Group, viewed 30 September 2013, <http://theconversation.com/moving-politics-online-how-australian-mainstream-media-portray-social-media-as-political-tools-15465>
What are the role of social media in politics?
The role of social media in politics can really play the minds of politicians to receive information where the people are entitle to express their opinions about the political decisions. It kind of a good thing that social media is revolved around our daily lives being connected 24/7 online to discuss politics with their own country state politician members to form part into a discussion to write their comments. This is a supported resource material where it discusses the Australia’s youngest Prime Minister, Wyatt Roy sharing his thoughts and experience adopting to social media to receive feedback, and also how different politician members are engaging more with the audience with instant messages responded from his Facebook and Twitter account. This suggest that politicians are beginning to see the benefit in using social media as a tool to seek for political news from day to day basis.
WyattRoy MP 2013, Role of social media in politics, Liberal National Party, OLD, viewed 30 September 2013, <http://www.wyattroy.com.au/2013/04/29/role-of-social-media-in-politics/>
Can twitter and Facebook really become a sustained weapon in political struggle?
I think twitter and Facebook has become a sustained weapon if they really need to discuss any circumstances that relates to politics. The politicians can be connected with users to have an opportunity to be more socialise and contribute in an instant communication tool where they can discuss anything involves around political struggle to be changed for different countries around the world.
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Social Media- Base Assignment on YouTube
Introduction
In this report, we as a group going to be analyzing the feature and functionality of a social media based company called YouTube. We are analyzing the overview and history of YouTube, Statistics illustrating how much they are adopting YouTube as a social media platform all over the world with interaction between users and celebrities. YouTube is considered one of the best social media organization to develop to users with video blogging experience while watching video clips online. We also be discussing the seven important steps of the ‘Building blocks’ of social media consisted of Identity, Conversation, Sharing, Presence, Relationships, Reputation and groups involving around YouTube with the online community. We going to be analysis the experience from a group member upload his videos online to get an interaction with comments, likes and dislikes, subscribers and rating of their clip.
1. Overview analysis of social media app/platform: YouTube
Founded in February 2005, YouTube is an online video-sharing website that allows billions of people around the world to discover, watch and share originally created videos. YouTube can be viewed from most popular web-browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer including multi platform based devices including tablets and smartphone apps. YouTube provides a forum for people to connect, comment, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small.
History overview
Three former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim created YouTube in 2005. Hurley obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Design at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Chen and Karim achieved their Computer Science degrees together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The brainstorming idea behind YouTube was to be an online solution for these three friends to share videos amongst their friends. It was a difficult operation beginning in Chad’s garage and took seven months before launching their first video online. 
Wikipedia 2010, YouTube Founders digital image, Wikimedia Foundation, viewed 19 September 2013, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube>.
During that period no one visited the site and things weren’t going as well as they’d hoped. In result of the matter they advertised on Craigslist offering money to attractive women to post on YouTube and still there was no response. This forced them back to the drawing board and soon returned with a fresh new design and with added social networking capabilities to make YouTube more Web 2.0 creating more of a place for the community.
YouTube re-launched in December 2005 and was an instant hit; streaming 3 million videos per day, in 2006 it grew to 100 million videos a day. In that year Karim left the YouTube group to study for a Masters in Computer Science at Stanford University. In November of that same year Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion and since the purchase YouTube began to skyrocket in success of attracting over 60% traffic for all video sites was going to YouTube; all of it’s competitors combined.
YouTube was more than just about traffic, it was about the community and a place where people can share their works and inspire others to create as well. In addition to this new social media success YouTube have announced its milestone: 1 billion users monthly. Companies and advertising agents are getting on board with their pre-video ads and it’s giving them excellent exposure and response. Users have adapted with this form of social media in their everyday online activity particularly student’s, teachers and enthusiasts have found YouTube to be a major valuable resource in education including tutorials. 
BBC 2013, Co-Founder of YouTube digital image, Headquarters broadcasting house, viewed 19 September 2013, <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8676380.stm>. On April 23, 2005,
YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim posted the very first video to YouTube, entitled ‘Me at the Zoo.’ The video is exactly how it sounds: Karim at the San Diego zoo standing in front of the elephants and talking about their trunks.
Find the Capital 2013, YouTube got its first one million-hit Nike ad video digital image, Marketing system industry, viewed 19 September 2013, <http://findthecapital.com/?p=848>.
In September 2005, YouTube got its first one million-hit video
The video was a Nike ad that went viral. It was a clip of Brazilian soccer player Ronaldinho receiving his pair of Golden Boots. Nike was also one of the first major companies to embrace YouTube’s promotional potential. 
Allure Media 2013, A baby named Charlie tool the world by storm in May 2007 digital image, Buisness Insider Australia international, viewed 19 September 2013, <http://www.businessinsider.com.au/key-turning-points-history-of-youtube-2013-2?op=1#youtube-launches-its-beta-site-in-may-2005-2>.
A baby named Charlie took the world by storm in May 2007
This 56-second viral video of a toddler biting his brother’s finger and then smiling is one of the most watched YouTube clips ever. At the time of publication, the video has half a billion views. As of February 2012, the family behind the video had made more than $150,000. 
Allure Media 2013, Usher introduced the world to Justin Bieber via a video on YouTube digital image, Business Insider Australia International, viewed 19 September 2013, <http://www.businessinsider.com.au/key-turning-points-history-of-youtube-2013-2?op=1#youtube-launches-its-beta-site-in-may-2005-2>. In April 2009, Usher introduced the world to Justin Bieber via a video on YouTube
Usher also announced that Bieber signed a recording contract with Island Def Jam records. Now, Justin Bieber’s Baby is one of the most viewed videos on YouTube, with more than 820 million views. That month, YouTube also won a Peabody Award for its achievements in electronic media.
Allure Media 2013, YouTube doing it live in April 2011 digital image , Business Insider Australia International, viewed 19 September 2013, <http://www.businessinsider.com.au/key-turning-points-history-of-youtube-2013-2?op=1#chad-hurley-registers-the-trademark-logo-and-domain-of-youtube-on-valentines-day-2005-1>.
YouTube started doing it live in April 2011
In April 2011, YouTube officially entered the broadcast business with the launch of YouTube Live. YouTube Live has allowed the site to stream everything from concerts to news coverage to the royal wedding to the Olympics. 
Allure Media 2013, Watch a live-stream of the Olympics in July 2012 digital image, Business Insider Australia International, viewed 19 September 2013, <http://www.businessinsider.com.au/key-turning-points-history-of-youtube-2013-2?op=1#chad-hurley-registers-the-trademark-logo-and-domain-of-youtube-on-valentines-day-2005-1>.
For the first time ever, people all over the world were able to watch a live-stream of the Olympics in July 2012 For the Summer Olympics, YouTube powered NBC’s online video experience to let users watch any event live. You could also access the footage from essentially any device, be that your computer, mobile phone, or tablet. 
Allure Media 2013, YouTube became to go-to place for the presidential election in August 2012 digital image, Business Insider Australia International, viewed 19 September 2013, < http://www.businessinsider.com.au/key-turning-points-history-of-youtube-2013-2?op=1#chad-hurley-registers-the-trademark-logo-and-domain-of-youtube-on-valentines-day-2005-1>.
Youtube Became the go-to place for the presidential election in August 2012 YouTube launched a one-stop channel for live election coverage in August 2012 called the YouTube Elections Hub. In addition to streaming the live speeches from the Republican National Convention and Democratic National Convention, it featured content from eight news entities: ABC News, Al Jazeera English, BuzzFeed, Larry King, The New York Times, Phil DeFranco, Univision, and The Wall Street Journal. 
Allure Media 2013, Gangnam Style hit 1 billion views in December 2012 digital image, Business Insider Australia International, viewed 19 September 2013, <http://www.businessinsider.com.au/key-turning-points-history-of-youtube-2013-2?op=1#chad-hurley-registers-the-trademark-logo-and-domain-of-youtube-on-valentines-day-2005-1>.
In a little over 5 months, Gangnam Style hit 1 billion views in December 2012 It’s now the number one video on YouTube with more than 1.3 billion views. 2012 in general was also huge for YouTube, with people watching more than 4 billion hours worth of video every month. 
Daily Infographic 2010, A brief history of YouTube digital image, South Carolina, US, viewed 19 September 2013, < http://dailyinfographic.com/a-brief-history-of-youtube-infographic>.
A brief history of YouTube (Infographic)
2. ‘Building Blocks’ of Social Media
Identity
When people upload videos on YouTube, it doesn’t reveal any personal information about the user details. Sometimes users can create a description about their personal information detail if they feel to be more sociable towards users online. The YouTube platform shows users the title of the video and the specific date it was upload and a small descriptions about themselves. YouTube is one of social media platform that doesn’t identify the user’s personal information towards online when interacting about the users’ video clip.
Conversations
YouTube facilitate communication between users to gain into a conversation video blogging online on an uploaded video to express their opinions. This gives an opportunity to user to engage, invite and participate in a conversation video blog online. User sometimes there are can have a significant impact to write inappropriate and offensive language comments towards other users or a particular video they viewed. The conversation on YouTube can be managed for a long period of time for people interactive online until YouTube decided to delete the video permanently. This allows user to read certain comments on YouTube where they can like or dislike, reply and rate during the conversation. Sometimes when you upload a video on YouTube, it’s hard to get user to interact online when you need their attention to start posting a comment.
Sharing
User are allow to share their upload video by exchanging and distributing the content towards ten different social media platform for interaction purposes. The ten social media platform they can share their uploaded videos consisted of Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Reddit, Blogger, Tumblr, StumbleUpon, Linkedin, pinterest and Bkohtakte. In Flew’s participatory culture readings, he mentions ‘that the capacity for users to access, share and verify information from a wide range of global sources’. This is clearly the same process for users to share their content from the videos but YouTube will check the user verify information to make sure it doesn’t contain any offensive or sexual behaviour.
Presence
There are many random users on YouTube that are socially and interactivity other users online whether their account is legitimate or fake. This can depend on whether the user profile account is being banned from YouTube for inappropriate behaviour or is not available and for conversations with online community. The users’ presence are known as anonymous with normal registered users and celebrities adopting to YouTube with followers the individual subscribe and viewers been added into their profile. Sometimes users have an option to delete their YouTube account and remove from the conversation and they are no longer exist as YouTube video bloggers.
Relationships
YouTube does not identify the users’ relationship status whether they are friends, romantic, married, single, it normally signifies them as anonymous. There are many users on YouTube have the option to post up a description of their relationship status if they feel comfortable sharing their personal information towards random users. Most users would use the second option to block their relationship status from YouTube confidentially and would consider to stay as anonymous to interact unknown users they never connected or communicate with. Relationships with YouTube users can depend on the type of video they upload, so if the user uploaded a video consisting of a marriage, they can know the user is a married individual.
Reputation
The reputation of YouTube is built for users for social activity and interaction to add list of friends they wish to set up as their conversation buddy online. YouTube is a well-managed reputation not only for the organisation itself, but for users to upload videos that meet their online users’ desire and needs such as tutorials, movies, and TV series being to the community online to view. YouTube can be a reliable enough for users to upload videos and comment anything about how they express their opinion Users intend to follow up that conversation until a user decided to start another conversation. People don’t related their comments about the video for example; If the video is about a demonstration of a person doing push ups, the first half people would comments something positive or negative whereas the second half of people would comment on a random topics not related to the video discussion such a lyric from a song or a funny script from a movie.
Groups
Groups are normally form when a YouTube user upload a video and starts a conversation video blogging, these friends consider as followers. The followers are the users’ list of friend they added for interact worldwide whether they related or not. The Subgroup is usually the people that has been added to their YouTube account in which when you click on their profile name, you can view the discussion page of his/her friend’s conversation page during their time being register as a YouTube user. Also there is a list of random users can subscribe from another user YouTube profile account they can add from two category of subscribers such as ‘People That I like’ or ‘Related channels on YouTube’.
3. Utlising the Social Media (YouTube)
Our experience with Youtube is that it has been becoming less of a social tool (they are trying to move the social media aspect over to Google Plus). It is still, nevertheless, a powerful social tool. Interaction with audiences is very easy, should you want that to happen. You are able to comment on other peoples videos, and anybody can reply to those comments. A channel that is starting off in 2013 will not get the number of views it would have gotten in 2009. It takes a lot more work to get noticed. For example, in 2009, video responses were a great way for a youtube channel to get noticed. Replies to popular videos would attract direct traffic through the response section of that video, and would also get the attention of the original publisher of that video, which would start a conversation, and this would, in some cases, bring a massive leap in traffic. This can be demonstrated in the analytics for one of our channels. The highlighted portion is the spike I had in views from one of the conversations. (and this channel had a similar spike in subscribers). 
However, since the site has been growing exponentially, this functionality became less and less important. Most of the time video responses got ignored, and while in 2009, you would get entire conversations happening in youtube videos which thousands would watch, people stopped doing that, and the nature of personal videos changed, from being personal messages that others watched to being mass communication. There are other ways that it has become more difficult to interact socially in Youtube. Popular youtubers now get literally millions of comments, and so physically can’t keep up with the continuous stream. There is no longer an alert to show that you have a comment or a reply on the front page of the site, you have to either go to your comment page or to your email (if you have notifications switched on). It is, however, easier to sit back and watch related videos. Between 2009 and 2012, it was very easy to get traffic to a video by tagging it with the tags of a more popular video. This led to a spate of videos that were not related at all cropping up next to popular videos. The solution to this exploit led to Youtube developing algorythms that accounted for time watched, so videos that did not get watched all the way to the end did not crop up in related videos. Unfortunately for the social media side of things, this also limits the interaction still further. Other factors that make things difficult is that you can’t navigate easily to the inbox. This means that it is hard to see new comments, whereas back in 2009, there was always an alert on the frontpage when you had new comments or new personal messages. On the whole, as a personal social media tool, many of the social features Youtube are being superseded by Facebook. As a mass social media tool, it has its own functionality, but it is becoming less of a social media tool (Google seem to be transferring many social media aspects to googleplus). That being said, it is still a valuable resource.
Conclusion
YouTube is a social media platform that can be tricky to adopt and interactive with other users online depending on the time and the video is been uploaded. Our research from our report has been demonstrated with interesting points where most celebrities would use social media to communicate, advertising and promotion that could succeed in the future. Utilizing the YouTube is difficulties and less experiences for Sry and I (Jorge) to upload the videos since we only register an account for the first time for the use for this social media based assignment where as Philip has more experience of interacting with users with the online community since 2009.
References: Flew, T 2008, ‘Participatory Media Cultures’, New Media: An introduction, Oxford University Press, UK, pp.106-125. <http://acc3004.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/week-4-flew-participatory-culture.pdf>
Curtis, A 2013, ‘The Brief History of Social Media’, WordPress: Mass Communication, University of North Carolina, US, pp.1 <http://acc3004.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/week-3-curtis-brief-history-of-social-media.pdf>.
Academia 2013, Social Media? Get Serious! Understanding the Functional Building Blocks of Social Media, Indiana University, USA, viewed 17 September 2013, <http://www.academia.edu/959458/Social_Media_Get_Serious_Understanding_the_Functional_Building_Blocks_of_Social_Media>.
A,Ozok, P,Zaphiris 2009, ‘Evaluation of User Reputation’: Online Communities, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp.346-353. <http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-02774-1_38#page-1>
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Social Media- Base Assignment on YouTube
Are we becoming digital narcissists with social media?
In nowadays, social media has become a best friend tool for many users, especially when user’s logon to Facebook and twitter every five to ten minutes. Many people would log on to Facebook and twitter during their spare time to socialise with their friends online about their daily lives when they bored at work, school, university or even at home. Many users Facebook has become more digital narcissist in terms of themselves express their personality when posting photographs of themselves to look cool, nice, pretty and even funny.
Their looks engages the awareness and the attention to other users online to either dislike or like the photo and sometimes those people can comment either something negative or positive. There are people in nowadays adopting social media to post and capture photos examples such as people driving to capture a photo instantly. There is another example where users normally on Facebook to posted a photo of themselves eating during lunch or dinner with the capture image of the food plate they consuming.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frtrbYQlfwc
How do you manage your online identity?
When I go on Facebook, I manage to keep my personal online identity private at all times. I don’t really post any personal comments and photos on Facebook. There only time when I post a comment when only topics involves with everyone socially for instance; My footy team has beaten a really efficient and difficult team, this is the comment that I posted this past Sunday ‘Go Carlton, we beat Richmond, what a win’ a quote from Jorge. When I go on Facebook, I rarely chat to my friends online as I prefer to communicate with them in person or on mobile phone.
Remixing
Remixing is the art of taking one idea and making it your own, reinterpreting it.
But how far can we take it? I mean, there are very simple ways to look at it, for example, the Amen break, which has been lifted from an obscure track from the soul band known as the Winstons, and used in a wide variety of music from the Futurama theme to Straight out of Compton to the Junkie XL version of Elvis’s “A Little Less Conversation”(featured in Ocean’s Eleven).
Remixing can be simple. Magritte’s Napoleon is one. There is not one pixel in this image that was not taken from either the portrait of Napoleon by David, or one of several pictures by Magritte. Yet, it is a new work that references both. There is also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo&noredirect=1, entitled “a fair(y) Use tale, which creates a complete narrative out of single words of Disney films. Some of the remixed images exceed by far the sources too. For example, this painting Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time by Agnolo Bronzino is not all that famous apart from the bottom left hand corner, otherwise known as Cupid’s foot , the foot that Terry Gilliam used on Monty Python to crush things.
One situation is, where does remixing end and where does plagiarism begin?
That is, to me, a completely subjective question. It depends on many variables. Not just legal variables like “is the original still in copyright”, but whether the owners of the original work defend their own rights. For example, there is the case in which Larrikin records took the bandmembers of Men at Work to court accusing them of reproducing large portions of “kookaburra sits in the old gum tree” in their song “land down under”. The end result was that the band and record company was forced to pay 5% of the royalties of the song backdated to 2002.
There are also tradmark cases, for example, the owners of Milton Glaser’s I Love New York trademark have two people working full time on defending the copyright, sending cease and desist orders to people who infringe upon it (even remixing) simply because if they do not defend the trademark, then they lose the trademark.
However, even if you exclude copyrighted works, there is still a lot of work you can remix.
Works where the author has been dead for more than 75 years.
Works that have been gifted to the people.
Works that have creative commons licenses.
These licenses take numerous forms.
Attribution (you can remix the work in any way you want as long as you attribute the original to the original publisher)
Attribution – share alike (Like attribution, but any resulting works must be shared in the same way as the original)
Attribution-no derivatives: You can spread the work wherever you want, but you have to not change it and attribute it to the creator
Attribution-noncommercial: You can change it however you want, but can’t use it in a commercial way
Attribution-noncommercial-sharealike: You can change it however you want, can’t use it in a commercial way, and you have to license the resulting work in the same way
Attribution-noncommercial-noderivs: You have to attribute it to the original author, you can’t use it in a commercial way, and you can’t change it in any way.
But even if works do not fall into any of these categories, there are still ways you can use material: These are known as “fair use”.
These include, criticism, commentary and educational purposes.
there are four additional factors used to decide whether material is fair use.
First, there is the nature of the derivative work, whether it is used in a for-profit context, or for nonprofit educational purposes. (and the courts also look as to whether such a work is transformative)
Second, the nature of the copyrighted work
(use of factual works are more likely to be usable than fictitious works)
Third, the amount of the work used in a derivative work. If small snippets are used, it is more likely to fall under “fair use” than if large or important chunks are used
And fourth, the effect on the value of the original work. If the derivative work harms the value of the original, then that might damage the likelihood that the work will fall under fair use, although sometimes parodies are exempted from this.
https://www.youtube.com/yt/copyright/fair-use.html
However, in short, it is best to try to stick to non copyrighted works.
Produsage and Production
What is the different between produsage and production?
The definition of Produsage is a term is use to create the content information from an opened source software development with good and service online such as Wikipedia. Production is a term refers as an action from different roles of workers within the team with responsibilities, and they must have knowledge and skills in order to complete the development of the product.
This is a link explaining Axel Bruns process of produsage and production.
Academia 2013, Exploring the Pro-Am interface between Produsage and Production, American arbitration Association, California, viewed 28 Aug 2013, <http://www.academia.edu/2342244/Exploring_the_Pro-Am_Interface_between_Production_and_Produsage>
What are some of the things that can be created by communities of producers?
Communities can be engage towards produsage if the production is distributed in a format where users can build, collaborate and change content information from different opened source platforms. There are many users would go to Wikipedia to update and edit the information if necessary if the content is old. Encyclopaedia is generally brought to all users with knowledge and general information about a certain article they researching.
Can produsage eventually replace productive in some areas?
Produsage can replace production only if the community is engaged more often online to create their own content information whether it is on Facebook, twitter, Instagram or Wikipedia. This all depends on how social media companies strategized their business to gain a large community based on contribution of users input. The game call The Sims is also a perfect example of where the community are opened to add, edit or change details of their content in the game.
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