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    This document discusses what motivates users to contribute to cultural production on social media platforms. It identifies six factors that enable rapid cultural change, including changes in technology and consumer markets. These factors have allowed the rise of "produsage," where users collaboratively create and curate content. Produsage refers to user-led content creation on sites like Wikipedia and open source software. Produsers are consumer-creators who disseminate cultural artifacts digitally. Reasons why people contribute include countering misunderstanding by adding different perspectives to discussions and democratizing knowledge.

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    This document discusses what motivates users to contribute to cultural production on social media platforms. It identifies six factors that enable rapid cultural change, including changes in technology and consumer markets. These factors have allowed the rise of "produsage," where users collaboratively create and curate content. Produsage refers to user-led content creation on sites like Wikipedia and open source software. Produsers are consumer-creators who disseminate cultural artifacts digitally. Reasons why people contribute include countering misunderstanding by adding different perspectives to discussions and democratizing knowledge.

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    This document discusses what motivates users to contribute to cultural production on social media platforms. It identifies six factors that enable rapid cultural change, including changes in technology and consumer markets. These factors have allowed the rise of "produsage," where users collaboratively create and curate content. Produsage refers to user-led content creation on sites like Wikipedia and open source software. Produsers are consumer-creators who disseminate cultural artifacts digitally. Reasons why people contribute include countering misunderstanding by adding different perspectives to discussions and democratizing knowledge.

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    This document discusses what motivates users to contribute to cultural production on social media platforms. It identifies six factors that enable rapid cultural change, including changes in technology and consumer markets. These factors have allowed the rise of "produsage," where users collaboratively create and curate content. Produsage refers to user-led content creation on sites like Wikipedia and open source software. Produsers are consumer-creators who disseminate cultural artifacts digitally. Reasons why people contribute include countering misunderstanding by adding different perspectives to discussions and democratizing knowledge.

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    Contributing to Cultural Production


    What motivates users to contribute to cultural production?

    By Prof. Jonathan Acuña-Solano, M. Ed.

    Head of Curriculum Development Senior Language Professor


    Academic Department School of English
    Centro Cultural Costarricense- Faculty of Social Sciences
    Norteamericano Universidad Latina de Costa Rica

    Thursday, August 9, 2020


    Post 361

    Prof. Alex Bruns, Queensland University of Technology, has stated that “it’s
    quite difficult to really think of producers and consumers as distinct categories”
    (The University of Sydney, 2020), especially when it comes to social media and
    the way people share in media platforms. Though “cultural systems change
    slowly,” there are moments in which society experiences a “rapid change altering
    the aesthetic expression of a cultural expression” (Sociology, (n.d.)). And this is
    the case of how people in social media platforms contribute with cultural
    production.
    What motivates users to contribute to cultural production? There is a full
    gamut of reasons why content generators produce new cultural content from
    pictures shared over Facebook or Twitter to blog entries with opinions on Blogspot
    or WordPress. “Six factors are identified as making possible rapid cultural change.
    These include changes in law and regulation, technology, industrial structure,
    organizational structure, occupational careers, and the consumer market”
    (Sociology, (n.d.)). Following this way of thinking, it can be said that in social
    media the seeds of “technology” and “the consumer market” are to sprout up and
    bring cultural production into people’s local media outlets. Here we have sight of
    what Prof. Bruns has called produsage.

    “Produsage refers to the type of user-led content creation that takes place
    in a variety of online environments such as Wikipedia, open source software, and
    the biosphere” (What is "produsage", 2020). Based on this definition, the user-led
    creator is labeled as produser, who is a kind of community curator of information,
    a collaborative organizer of information, and a developer of a shared set of
    knowledge (The University of Sydney, 2020). The produser is the consumer on the
    social media “markets” and whose whetstones to sharpen his/her creativity are
    the social media platforms. A produser is then a disseminator of cultural artifacts
    in digital forms.

    Finding an answer to the reasons why people get to contribute to cultural


    production is a wrestling match in earnest! It can be stated that produsers do it to
    counterbalance misunderstanding. People trapped in some sort of sore dismay
    may come to the media to contribute with the discussion of a topic they find it is
    not being well comprehended by others. Produsers may also hover around to
    propose a different point of view to add more value to an ongoing discussion. As
    stated before, if these individuals find people wrong in their understanding of facts
    linked to a current issue, they will try to dispel this so-called darkness in
    comprehension. With the idea in mind of democratizing knowledge, they may
    brood over what is being shared for some time and then “produse” something to
    feel they have contributed with something for the community curation of
    information.

    References
    Sociology. ((n.d.)). Production of Culture. Retrieved August 13, 2020, from
    http://sociology.iresearchnet.com/: http://sociology.iresearchnet.com/sociology-of-
    culture/production-of-
    culture/#:~:text=Six%20production%20factors%20are%20identified,careers%2C%20and%20th
    e%20consumer%20market.

    The University of Sydney. (2020). What motivates users to contribute to cultural production? Retrieved
    August 13, 2020, from FutureLearn.Com: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/ethical-social-
    media/1/steps/824140

    What is "produsage". (2020). Retrieved August 13, 2020, from https://findwords.info/:


    https://findwords.info/term/produsage

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