1st April 2009
Remi Otani
DIGITAL PUBLISHING
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AGENDA
 Literature Review
 Examples
 Conclusions
 Discussions
 Bibliography
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Literature Review
 “Participation, remediation, bricolage:
considering principal components of a digital
culture” written by Deuze, M.
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Literature Review
 What is Digital Culture? Definitions by other
theorists;
 Cyberculture
 Information culture
 Interface culture
 Internet culture
 Virtual culture in cybersociety
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Literature Review
 Digital Culture for Deuze;
 `Cyberculture` is in fact,,, an expression of an
increasingly individualized society in a globalized world.”
An Expression of:
Value System Individualization
Expectations Postnationalism
In order to make an identity
Globalization
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What is Digital Culture?
Remediation
Participation Bricolage
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What is Digital Culture?
Remediation
Participation Bricolage
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What is Digital Culture?
 Participation
 News as collaborative, participatory activity
 “A new form of journalism”
 Resistance towards traditional Mass media
broadcasting model.
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What is Digital Culture?
 Participation:
 Being part of a community, and making contribution for a
common purpose.
“They are citizens who are paying
 Examples attention to their communities and are
helping others pay attention” *
 Community blogs
 Wikis
 Social bookmarking
 Social Tagging
 SNSs
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*Source: Fanselow, J. (2008).

What is Digital Culture?
Remediation
Participation Bricolage
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What is Digital Culture?-
Remidiation
Remediation of Old Distantiation
Media (counter-mainstream act)
Distantiation as
Distantiation as
social act
individualization
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What is Digital Culture?-
Remidiation
Michel Wesche
http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=179
17:09--
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Remediation- Example
 Twitter (micro blogging) as
Journalism
 Tweets are individualistic,
however, it is a contribution in a
social environment.
 Highlight of this article;
 Speed vs old media
(counter mainstream act)
 Exceeds the limitation of old
media.
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Source: http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,28348,24745284-5014239,00.htmlYour Say

What is Digital Culture?
Remediation
Participation Bricolage
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What is Digital Culture?
 Bricolage
 Remix, reuse, redistribute of information
 Click, link and publish
 “second-hand truth”--- Baudrillard
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Bricolage-Example
 Indymedia/ Independent Media Center
 Interactive news website, a global network and
radically democratic organization.
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Bricolage-Example
 Remix in journalistic sense
 The Huffington Post
 Gathering information
from different sources
and reconstructing to
form a coherent argument.
 Various links to other
web pages (sources).
 Posts are made
available to be
remixed.
Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/politics/ 17

Bricolage-Example
 Credibility/ Authority
represented through
numbers ; diggs, fans,
comments
 A different way of building
credibility vs old Media
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/index/

Conclusions
 Author concludes; Digital culture co-exists
with other media cultures, it is not a
replacement.
My Conclusions are,
 “digital culture” will not replace pre-existing media
culture. However, as it will effect and change the
way we consume media more and more, there is
potential in the future.
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Discussions
 Do you think Digital Culture will actually be Digital
Culture one day?
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Bibliography
 Deuze, M. (2006). Participation, Remediation, Bricolage: Considering Principal Components of a Digital Culture.
The Information Society , 22, 63-75.
 Fanselow, J. (2008). Community blogging: The new wave of citizen journalism. National Civic Review , 97 (4), 24-29.
Retrieved March 24, 2009, from Wiley Inter Science database.
 Munger, M. C. (2008). Blogging and political information: truth or truthiness? Public Choice , 134 (1-2), 125-138.
Retrieved March 22, 2009, from Springer database.
 Pickard, V. W. (2006). United yet autonomous: Indymedia and the struggle to sustain a radical democratic network.
Media Culture Society , 28 (3), 315-336. Retrieved March 24, 2009, from Sage Publications database.
 http://mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/?p=179
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE
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