How do issues such as authorship, copyright and open access impact your desire, ability and willingness to engage in produsage, both personally and professionally?
Whether I decide to keep using this blog or not, it is going to be a really funny artifact to look back on in a few years. As technology and opinions change, I will probably laugh out loud about certain comments I made. Also, being a student, I know that I have a lot to learn and probably have some misconceptions that a more experienced ID would probably read and have at least a good chuckle.
The open access component of web 2.0 caused me to debate how much ownership to take over my thoughts as I started this blog. Should I use my full name and build recognition or should I grow in my experience and create a new blog once I have more experience? Ultimately, I settled somewhere in the middle, but it was a concept that I had to wrestle with for a while. Professionally, there could be serious implications either way. This is true for all forms of produsage. There are many examples of people being fired for their what they write on Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and other sites. There are also many examples of people getting jobs (or in my case and internship) for what is on those same sites.
There are also personal implications of web 2.0. I could blog about something that upsets one of my friends. My fiance may have viewed me posting the picture of us running as a violation of privacy. Neither of those situations happened, but they were very real possibilities as I dove into this blog.
There are also some clearly helpful components to web 2.0. For instance, if I post this journal at a certain time with a groundbreaking theory and you post something a few minutes after commenting on mine, I would have undeniable authorship and copywrite evidence for a lawsuit. Don't worry, I probably won't sue you, but it is a very helpful attribute of web 2.0.
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