<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Thomas Poell <<a href="mailto:t.poell@uva.nl">t.poell@uva.nl</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">March 16, 2010 3:18:27 PM CEST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:mastersofmedia@listcultures.org">mastersofmedia@listcultures.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b><mom> Fwd: CFP: Exploring Produsage - Special Issue of NRHM</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><div>CFP<br><br><br>---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: Axel Bruns <<a href="mailto:a.bruns@qut.edu.au">a.bruns@qut.edu.au</a>><br>Date: 2010/3/15<br>Subject: CFP: Exploring Produsage - Special Issue of NRHM<br>To: Axel Bruns <<a href="mailto:a.bruns@qut.edu.au">a.bruns@qut.edu.au</a>><br>Cc: "Jan Schmidt (<a href="mailto:j.schmidt@hans-bredow-institut.de">j.schmidt@hans-bredow-institut.de</a>)"<br><<a href="mailto:j.schmidt@hans-bredow-institut.de">j.schmidt@hans-bredow-institut.de</a>><br><br><br>Dear colleague,<br><br>Apologies for the somewhat impersonal nature of this email.<br><br>You'll be aware of my work on the concept of produsage over the past<br>few years, chiefly in the book Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and<br>Beyond: From Production to Produsage (New York: Peter Lang, 2008).<br><br>I am writing to you now to let you know about the CFP for a special<br>issue of the journal New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia on this<br>topic, which my colleague Jan Schmidt (from the Hans-Bredow-Institut,<br>Hamburg) and I have been invited to edit. We would be delighted if you<br>could pass the CFP below on to any of your colleagues who may be<br>interested in contributing, and/or if you were able to contribute an<br>article yourself.<br><br>The full CFP is below - and of course we'd be happy to respond to any<br>queries you might have. Many thanks in advance !<br><br><br><br>Exploring Produsage<br><br>A Special Issue of New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia<br><br>Call for papers<br><br><br>The concept of produsage points to the shift away from conventional<br>producer/consumer relationships, and highlights the more fluid roles<br>of users and contributors within social media environments.<br>Participants in open source projects, in Wikipedia, in YouTube and<br>Second Life are no longer merely consuming or using preproduced<br>material, but neither are they at all times acting as fully<br>self-determined producers of fully formed new works; rather, they<br>occupy a hybrid position as produsers of content.<br><br>Produsage processes are now evident across a wide range of activities<br>- mainly online, but increasingly also extending to the offline world<br>- from citizen journalism and communal knowledge management through to<br>collaborative artistic activities, from learner-led education models<br>to citizen engagement in political processes. As such models establish<br>themselves, what does an examination through the lens of the produsage<br>framework reveal about their internal operations? How do they affect<br>the existing institutional, industrial, social, and cultural<br>environments within which they operate? How may they be guarded<br>against cooptation and exploitation by corporate interests? What<br>possible futures do they foreshadow?<br><br>Potential contributions to this special issue could include, but are<br>not limited to, areas such as:<br><br>* Conceptualising produsage: theoretical frameworks for examining<br>produsage activities, practical examples of produsage projects, ...<br><br>* Historical and comparative perspectives: produsage and other forms<br>of collaborative and commons-based work, precedents of produsage, ...<br><br>* Technologies and practices of produsage: collaborative dynamics of<br>leading produsage spaces, impact of the technological foundations of<br>produsage, ...<br><br>* Empirical perspectives on produsage: case studies of produsage and<br>its effects, ethnographic research into produsage communities, ...<br><br>* Methodology: research approaches to the study of produsage, tracking<br>and evaluating produser activitities, ...<br><br>* Critical perspectives: economic, legal, pedagogic, sociological<br>perspectives on produsage, ...<br><br><br>For this special issue of NRHM, we invite contributions on these and<br>other topics related to produsage. Full papers should be around 7,000<br>words; shorter papers (around 3,000 words) for technical notes,<br>industry perspectives or opinion pieces are also welcome. More<br>detailed instructions for authors can be found online:<br><a href="http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/nrhm">http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/nrhm</a>. Queries should be directed to<br>the Guest Editors.<br><br>Authors should submit their papers online via the New Review of<br>Hypermedia and Multimedia Manuscript Central site:<br><a href="http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham">http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tham</a><br><br><br>Important dates<br><br>16 July 2010 - paper submission deadline<br><br>24 September 2010 - author notification<br><br>15 October 2010 - final copy due<br><br>Northern Spring 2011 - publication<br><br><br>Guest Editors<br><br>Axel Bruns, ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and<br>Innovation (Brisbane), a.bruns@qut.edu.au<br><br>Jan Schmidt, Hans-Bredow-Institute for Media Research (Hamburg),<br>j.schmidt@hans-bredow-institut.de<br><br><br>--<br>Dr Axel Bruns http://snurb.info/ - http://produsage.org/<br>ARC Centre for Creative Industries and Innovation http://cci.edu.au/<br>Associate Professor, Media & Communication a.bruns@qut.edu.au<br>Creative Industries Faculty, Z1-515, CIP Twitter: @snurb_dot_info<br>Queensland University of Technology +61 7 31385548<br>Musk Ave, Kelvin Grove, Qld. 4059, Australia CRICOS No.: 00213J<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mastersofmedia mailing list<br>mastersofmedia@listcultures.org<br>http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/mastersofmedia_listcultures.org<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>