Week 4

Week 4 question

Social media music video project

http://oneframeoffame.com/

Referring to either the above website, or another you know of that employs crowdsourcing, briefly discuss whether or not you think this is innovative in terms of social media, produsage and crowdsourcing. Refer to concepts introduced this week in the lecture and course resources. If you use another site be sure to provide a link in your blog. Also make use of an image if possible. With screen captures, make sure you note the URL where you sourced the image and, the date viewed, as part of your caption.

The creativity of this website is great! What a wonderful idea to introduce crowdsourcing to produce a fun and innovative video! No doubt it is not a new-to-the-world idea, but due to it being part of the study materials for this week’s lecture, I found it interesting and very clever because I had never seen anything like it before!

The constant produsage enables product improvement of the video as it gets lengthier. Some positions or lighting conditions in the images may be better and more effective than others, and through the crowdsourcing of this project, the ideas are endless because everybody thinks differently and their creativity varies.

This is definitely a form of social media purely for the fact that it is bringing people together from all parts of the world with a single snapshot of themselves for everyone in the world to view online. It makes all of the contributors feel involved in the product-modification and enables everyday people (who are contributing their images) feel special – because everyone wants their ‘fifteen minutes of fame’ or to be recognised. (I’m not saying this video is making the everyday people featured in it famous, but it would give them a sense of worth and excitement to see themselves on the internet being included in the video. This, in turn, would make them want to share the website for their friends to see - then more people would see it - then more people would participate - which generates more hype about the site and helps it become popular. And the implementation of this particular social media design, ultimately creates fame and major innovation for the originators of the website.