Produsage: Presentations

I’m currently travelling in northern Europe to attend a number of conferences – and along the way, I’m also presenting a number of guest lectures on produsage. This extends on the book itself, combining it with the outcomes of my work for the Smart Services CRC, to explore the connections between community produsage and commercial operations at what we might call the pro-am interface. It’s an updated version of the presentations I gave at the JMRC in Sydney last year.

Here’s the presentation, with audio from my talk at Metropolia University in Helsinki on 28 Oct. 2010. I also presented a shorter version of this talk at the University of Göteborg on 20 October, and will do the same at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels in a few days, on 3 November. My sincere thanks to Robert Arpo at Metropolia, Oscar Westlund at Göteborg, and Gert Nulens at Brussels for their invitations and hospitality!

(Crossposted from snurb.info.)

In a few days' time, I'll head off to Europe again, to present at this year's Conference on e-Democracy (EDEM 2010). I really enjoyed the 2009 edition (see the coverage on snurb.info), and it's hard to believe a whole year has passed already - probably because it hasn't: EDEM 2009 was held in September...

Still, that's not stopped us from developing some new ideas on how to further the 'government 2.0' push which aims to utilise Web 2.0 technologies, social media models, and produsage processes in order to create better engagement and participation between governments and citizens. This year, I'm building on my observations with Jason Wilson about top-down and bottom-up forms of engagement, presented at EDEM 2009, to suggest (in a paper co-authored with Adam Swift) that neither the common government-to-citizen (g2c) nor citizen-to-citizen (c2c) initiatives in the government 2.0 space quite manage to find the right balance, and that we may need to explore the possibility for new, hybrid models in between these poles: we outline what we've called a g4c2c model in which government provides explicit support for, and gets involved in, citizen-to-citizen activities.

(Crossposted from snurb.info.)

There's a fair amount of travelling coming up for me over the next few months - and as always, where I'm attending conferences I'll endeavour to cover them on snurb.info (though a good part of my travels in May is for personal reasons, so don't expect too much - a few tweets here and there, perhaps).

First, though, I'm off to Perth and Adelaide next week to speak at the State Libraries of Western Australia (on 28 April) and South Australia (on 30 April) . In a talk I'm calling "Outreach and Co-Curation: Engaging with Library Users", I'll explore how libraries and librarians may use social media to connect and collaborate with library users - this updates my keynote at the ARLIS conference a couple of years ago and also builds on the social media reports I've written for the Smart Services CRC. Ultimately, what this points to is the significant potential for librarians and library users to engage in a shared practice of co-curating information and knowledge: importing and adapting produsage approaches into library practice, and in the process perhaps opening up new user communities for our libraries. I've already posted the Powerpoint here - and all going well, I'll add the audio from the presentation later on as well. UPDATE: The audio from the SLSA talk is now online as well. Thanks again to the SLSA and SLWA folks for organising the event!