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MIT CMS Convergence Culture Consortium (C3)
MIT Communications Futures Program (CFP) - Fall 2012 Plenary
Overview
• C3 Core Concepts (Media Studies/Cultural Studies)
• Technobrega Case Study (Music Genre/Community in
Brazil)
• Value Network/Value Chain Analysis
• Relationship to DRM (Divorcing Control from Revenue)
MIT CMS Convergence Culture Consortium (C3)
MIT Communications Futures Program (CFP) - Fall 2012 Plenary
Participatory
Culture
Forms of public
engagement based
more on social and
cultural protocols
and less on
technology as the
primary driver.
C3 Core Concepts
Collective Intelligence
Term coined by Pierre Levy which refers to
the capacity of virtual communities to
leverage the special interests of their
community members, normally through
collaboration and large scale
discussions.
C3 Core Concepts
“Spreadability” (2008)
Challenge to the Viral Metaphor
and reference to “The Meme”
Spreadability vis a vis “Network
Effect” and “Churn Rate”
(“Stickiness”)
“Spreadability” (2008)
- Gift Economy (Lewis Hyde)
- Monetary and Non-Monetary
Exchange/Social Capital
- Media Distribution
- CFP’s VCDWG work applicable here notion of “intangible value”
Tecnobrega Case Study
(value networks over
value chains)
• A grassroots Brazilian music
industry
• Audiences create economic and
symbolic value
• Audiences as productive actors in
the value chain
• Innovation in production,
distribution and promotion
• Consumption as promotion
• Creators do not enforce copyright,
rely on audiences and pirate
networks to spread their content
Thank You!
MIT Communications Futures Program (CFP) - Fall 2012 Plenary