Participatory Culture 

 

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Participatory Culture: Vincent Miller argued an idea in his book Understanding Digital Culture, where he shows how the border lines between producer and consumers become blurry. Producers are those who create content and consumers are those who consume those contents. Participatory culture refer to that blurry line because participatory culture creates the blurriness. In participatory culture everyone can create and consume contents at the same time. Everyone is a contributor. The idea of producers and consumers no longer exits.

The emergence of internet trigger the participatory culture. In addition, when the participatory cultures get bigger the resource of internet gets bigger. An example of participatory culture is YouTube, where everyone can produce and consume content. In participatory culture, participation is the main important thing. 

The participatory culture opens new path for earning. For example, in YouTube when someone watches a video the creator of the video earns money and the people who watches video can also create video and earn. As a result, the resources become more available for everyone. The price of information gets cheaper. 

Everything comes with good and bad, so the participatory culture. Everyone can create content so myths and fake information can create easily. For example, someday ago in Bangladesh a fake information of salt price got viral on Facebook. That created a mess in civic society. Therefore, everyone got power in participatory culture and anyone can misuse that power. Cyber bulling is another negative side of participatory culture. People can create content to harass other.