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Participatory Culture

Published on Nov 21, 2015

Participatory Culture

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Participatory Culture

Emily McLernon & Anna landi
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what is participation?

  • 'The Activity of taking part in something.'  

What is participatory culture?

  • Digital participation in literacy employs a toolbox of skills
  • (Persuasion, curation, discussion and self presentation for most 
  • amongst them), and expands a range of involvement, 
  • from tagging a photo or bookmarking a site, to editing
  • a wikipedia page or publishing a blog.
Photo by Neal.

What is participatory culture?

  • Participatory culture is when a certain amount of
  • of people participate in creating cultural materials
  • like blogs, wiki's, forums and communities.
  • 'And it is a culture populated by people who beleive
  • they have some degree of power'  (Rheingold, 2012)
Photo by harold.lloyd

Bibliography

  • Rheingold (2012) Net Smart: How to Thrive Online. Cambridge Mass. and London: MIT Press.
Photo by Will Montague