Participatory Culture

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Participatory Culture
In a participatory culture the public are not just consumers but that they produce their own content as well so they are in effect 'prosumers'. The recent development in the internet has enabled the public to produce and publish their media content online - the internet has given prosumers a mass audience. A participatory culture means the prosumers are not simply being broadcasted to but they are creating their own content.

• relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement - this means that the public can be creative and feel that they are involved and participating in society and culture.
• With strong support for creating and sharing ones creation with others - this means people should feel that they are encouraged to create content and then publish that media and share with others.
• With some type of informal mentorship with what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices - the public should feel that they can ask people for information and advice.
• Where members feel some degree that their contributions matter - this means people should feel that the content they create and publish has a purpose and a point.
• Members feel some degree of a social connection with each other - this means that in a participatory culture there is a social connection and a community.