Designing collaborative media

Abstract

Collaborative media refers to digital media where people outside the traditional media industries participate in production as well as infrastructural design. We argue that (1) people's use of computers today increasingly comprise communicating in collaborative media, and that (2) designing collaborative media implies fundamental changes to design processes and designer roles, which in turn (3) forms a challenge to the proactive position of the CHI community in shaping future computer use.

Rights to remember?

“…In the last decades designers have been moving increasingly closer to the future users of what they design [20,14], and scholars and practitioners have put emphasis on understanding the phenomena where people's media use and practices are intertwined with media consumption, design and production [17,18,20]. This is often characterized as 'participation culture': it refers to new modes of media practices and production that rely on social networks, participation platforms and common-pool resources on the Internet [see e.g.…”

“…2,13,16]. In "a culture of participation" everyone has a possibility to be an active and creative actor, decision maker, share one's creations [11] and take part in collaborative media design [17,18,21]. Furthermore, the HCI and design research community has focused on how to facilitate and support multiple levels of creative activities by people participating online [e.g.…”

The Computer is a Medium, Not a Tool: Collaborative Media Challenging Interaction Design

“…They create elaborate video mashups and machinima episodes, they curate the web with great commitment, and they talk for hours with people they have never met. All of these communicative practices fall within what we call collaborative media [7], referring to an emerging cultural form of digital media characterized by the following traits [8] (to be elaborated in the following).…”