“Ultimately, what [sites like Amazon] and other tools for the creation and publication of metadata on the Web point towards may also be a wider phenomenon of disconnection between the processes of content creation and the processes of the produsage of further information and knowledge from such content. On the one hand, any process of content creation is necessarily also a process of metadata creation: any content, when analyzed, necessarily also yields internal metadata about itself (such as key words, date and time of publication, and other information about features of the text). On the other hand, in an online context which allows third-party produsers to tag, publishers to link to, and users to browse that content, these three core practices also provide the basis for the generation of external metadata through annotation at a distance, thereby creating a wide range of further information and knowledge about the content well beyond what its original creators may have had in mind.” (177)
-Axel Bruns, Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond
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Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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