What is Participatory Culture

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A culture in which artistic expression and civic engagement are valued and are oriented towards creating and sharing one’s creations. Learn more in: Social Aspects of Digital Literacy

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A culture based upon creating in a collaborative environment (Jenkins, 2006). Learn more in: Bridging New Media Literacies and the Common Core Through Narrative

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A culture that affords individuals dual roles as members and active contributors through opportunities to exercise creative agency. Learn more in: User-Created Online Learning Videos: Collaborative Knowledge Construction Through Participatory Design

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A culture in which private individuals do not act as consumers only, but also as contributors or producers, that enables people to work collaboratively. Learn more in: Like It: A Facebook E-Learning Architecture for Higher Education

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A culture where consumers turn into prosumers that actively participate in creating and spreading new content. Learn more in: The Marketer as Storyteller: Transmedia Marketing in a Participatory Culture

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A culture where spaces or processes give peoplethe means to take part and contribute. Learn more in: The Discourses of Empowerment and Web 2.0: The Dilemmas of User-Generated Content

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Term developed by Henry Jenkins to describe contemporary cultures where members of a society do not only consume media content but also create and distribute it. Learn more in: New and Strange Sorts of Texts: The Shaping and Reshaping of Digital and Multimodal Books and Young Adult Novels

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A culture that challenges the consumer culture, wherein individuals do not act merely consumer but also participate in cultural commodities as contributors or “prosumers.” Learn more in: Audience, User, Producer: MOOCs as Activity Systems

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The culture which encourages networked community sharing of information and artistic expression on a global scale. Learn more in: Digital Citizenship in Virtual Environments

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Participatory culture is a broad-based term that subsumes a wide array of activities that users perform in the digital age. Henry Jenkins has contributed a lot to the popularity as well as for the uptake of participatory culture as a theoretical framework. Some of the activities users perform frequently such as Do IT Yourself mashing up of music to create identities, crowd sourcing, blogging, fan cultures, community organizing exemplify participatory cultures. Jenkins defines participatory culture as one which allows free expression of artistic talent and civic engagement sharing one’s creations with others. In the process, everyone becomes a produser (producer and user). Users also establish social connection with others by sharing their creations. Participatory cultures are productive, creative and collaborative. For more, read The Participatory Culture Handbook edited by Aaron Delwiche and Jennifer Jacobs Handerson and also Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century by Henry Jenkins. Learn more in: Culture of Use of Moodle in Higher Education: Networked Relations between Technology, Culture and Learners

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A community characterized by creative expression and civic engagement. Learn more in: Children and Youth Making Digital Media for the Social Good

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This is a strategy that involves the people. This permits freedom of expression and participation. Learn more in: Ṣaworoidẹ: A Depiction and Analysis of the Political and Socio-Cultural Characteristics of the Yorùbá Talking Drum

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Collaboration with others and sharing of Web-based resources to create new content and construct knowledge. Learn more in: Personal Learning Networks: Implications for Self-Directed Learning in the Digital Age

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The new forms of cultural production in which consumers can add contents, re-elaborate them and actively contribute to the mainstream media industry. Learn more in: Learning in a “Classi 2.0” Classroom: First Results from an Empirical Research in the Italian Context

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A culture in which individuals are engaged with media instead of simply being passive consumers of information. Learn more in: Teaching Media and Information Literacy in the 21st Century

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A culture in which artistic expression and civic engagement are valued, oriented towards creating and sharing one’s creations. Learn more in: The Roles of Digital Literacy in Social Life of Youth

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A new type of culture occurred when the media consumers have become active with the new media and started to have a voice in the production and distribution of the content. Learn more in: Orientalism and Humour: Marginalization of the Turks in 9GAG

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A culture of creativity, sharing, and knowledge building. Participatory culture typically utilizes online technologies as a means of creating new knowledge among individuals who share common interests or goals (Jenkins, 2008). Learn more in: Popular Media and Grade 6-12 Literacy: A Review of Practitioner Literature

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A concept developed by Jenkins (2006) based on his own research of fandom communities; characteristic of a participatory cultures are low barriers for engagement, strong social connections among members, a belief in collective effort, and informal mentoring among members. The impetus and opportunity to become part of a participatory culture grew dramatically with the spread of the Internet; however, participatory culture is distinct from Web 2.0 culture in that a participatory culture is not reliant on computers but only a community of like-minded enthusiasts drawn to a particular topic. Learn more in: Do-It-Yourself Media in U.S. Education: A Brief Overview of an Uneasy Relationship

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Participatory culture can be characterized as including low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, support for creating and sharing one’s intellectual property with others, a belief that one’s contributions matter, and a sense of social connection to others in the culture. Learn more in: Teaching Credibility of Sources in an Age of CMC

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Cultures or affinity spaces characterized by informal learning structures such as low barriers to participation, fluid mentorship, and experimentation. Learn more in: Game Design as Literacy-First Activity: Digital Tools With/In Literacy Instruction

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A culture that challenges the consumer culture, wherein individuals do not act merely consumers but also participate in cultural commodities as contributors or producers, that enables people to work collaboratively. It is emerging as the culture absorbs and responds to the explosion of new media technologies that make it possible for average consumers to archive, annotate, appropriate, and recirculate media content in powerful new ways. The potential of participatory culture for civic engagement and creative expression has been well investigated by media scholar Henry Jenkins. Learn more in: Return of Fandom in the Digital Age With the Rise of Social Media

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A group or groups who engage in dialogue regarding a genre of media. Learn more in: Innovations in Mobile Photography for Digital-Age Teachers and Learners

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It is “a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, strong support for creating and sharing creations, and some type of informal mentorship whereby experienced participants pass along knowledge to novices. In a participatory culture, members also believe their contributions matter and feel some degree of social connection with one another”. In particular, the following skills underlies the participative culture: Affiliation, Expression, Collaborative problem solving, Circulation. New skills follow: Play, Performance, Simulation, Appropriation, Multitasking, Distributed cognition, Collective intelligence, Judgment, Transmedia navigation, Networking, Negotiation” ( Jenkins, 2009 ). Learn more in: Toward Smart Heritage: Cultural Challenges in Digital Built Heritage

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Participatory culture can be characterized as including low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, support for creating and sharing one’s intellectual property with others, a belief that one’s contributions matter, and a sense of social connection to others in the culture. Learn more in: Teaching Credibility of Sources in an Age of CMC

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A culture in which every user has the potential to create and modify content. Its advent is connected with the development of digital technologies. Learn more in: The User With a Thousand Faces: Campbell's “Monomyth” and Media Usage Practices