Paradoxical empowerment of produsers in the context of informational capitalism

New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 9-29

  Proulx, Serge ^a   Heaton, Lorna ^b   Jane Kwok Choon, Mary ^a   Millette, Melanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Community; Crowdsourcing; Empowerment; Governance; Informational capitalism; Online contribution; Produsage

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY; CROWDSOURCING; EMPOWERMENT; GOVERNANCE; INFORMATIONAL CAPITALISM; ONLINE CONTRIBUTION; PRODUSAGE;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 79953310546     PISSN: 13614568     EISSN: 17407842     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13614568.2011.552646     Document Type: Article

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