Friday, July 5, 2013

Am I a produser or a consumer?



The prompt: How might the concept of produsage be applied in your life (personal and/or professional) as it stands today? Are you already a produser? If yes, what do you do? If no, why not? 

 My response: Mainly, I am a consumer of social media and web 2.0 tools. I do not watch TV though I have one because I like the new media younger people are producing on Youtube. I do not produce videos because this is not what I want to do or used to do, but I have might done some if these tools had appeared when I was still a teacher. I used to create PowerPoint slides since social media have not been popular in education at that time. These days, all production I do is related to assignments in graduate school. As a student, I find many resources out there in the web that make my contribution to produce content might not meet a great need giving the time it takes and the limited time I have. The only thing I think I can do is to help communicate and spread knowledge by liking, sharing, and retweeting articles in social networks. 

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  1. VanessaJuly 5, 2013 at 12:06 PM

    Just curious -- do you watch the serials (ongoing shows) that have popped up on YouTube, or just random videos?

    I've not gotten heavily into YouTube, probably in part conditioned by two years with a laptop that did not like it (at all). And from that point I just kind of passed by the videos ... but have started watching more (loved being able to share all of my old Sesame Street favorites with my daughter on there).

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    1. UnknownJuly 6, 2013 at 1:46 PM

      I don't really watch Youtube in English for fun. The videos I used to watch are in Arabic and most of them are mix of drama and comedy and since I subscribed to their channels, I receive emails of new videos that are uploaded. So, I do not really know what is popping up in Youtube in general. I have seen some of good TV shows there but I have tried it only once.

      For my daughters, I love to favorite old TV shows I used to see when I was in their age too! I organize them in playlists so they can watch them on TV one after the other without stopping. But, what I don't understand is how come I cannot find very famous TV shows in English. Some of them are not translated in English though they are translated in many other languages such as Heidi the girl of alps. I am happy I found all episodes of Heidi in Arabic on Youtube :-)

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  2. DDBlountJuly 6, 2013 at 12:42 PM

    I once watched almost an entire movie on YouTube (Blue Lagoon). I am sure the poster broke some type of copyright law, but I was amazed that I was able to watch the film from my laptop without inserting a DVD. Other than that, my use of YouTube is usually limited to music videos or silly videos posted by YouTube celebrities like Jenna Marbles.

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  3. UnknownJuly 6, 2013 at 1:54 PM

    I have watched movies from Disney with my daughters on Youtube, but do you know what.. I like to watch movies on my iPhone. It is my secret :-) It is not bad because the iPhone screen is so good in picture quality and it is easy to carry with me to watch my favorite TV shows specially when I try to get my daughter to sleep. I bought Mr. Selfridges, the TV show, last week from iTunes and I enjoyed it in the little screen.

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  4. UnknownJuly 15, 2013 at 6:53 AM

    I LOOOVVVEEE TV!
    I have always pictured people who don't like TV as being super genius types :)
    Glad to have a super genius in my change management group!

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