Participatory culture

creative-commons

Commodificaton of digital commons

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‘The commons refers to natural and cultural resources that are shared by a community of commoners’ (Wittel, 2013). With the beginning of digital era, commons have revived in the form of digital ones presented by ‘the results of social production necessary for social interaction and further production, such as knowledges, languages, codes, information, affects, and[…]

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Participatory culture and Copyright. How can they get along?

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It can be said without a doubt that currently the boundary between a digital media consumer and producer is gradually vanishing. Due to the development of Web 2.0 and the increasing accessibility of advanced technologies like mobile phones, digital cameras, WYSIWYG editors more and more people are leaving the position of a passive spectator and becoming digital authors. […]