Ross Mayfield and Howard Rheingold’s Participatory Media Education Resources offers the most thorough and succinct overview of participatory media I’ve found. From the introduction:
“Recent technological changes have made much wider social changes possible: Until the end of the twentieth century, only a relatively small and wealthy fraction of the human race could broadcast television programs, publish newspapers, create encyclopedias; by the twenty first century, however, inexpensive digital computers and ubiquitous Internet access made the means of high quality media production and distribution accessible to a substantial portion of the world’s population. In 2006, more than one billion people are connected to the Internet and close to three billion people carry mobile telephones. These technological changes in accessibility of production tools and distribution media have led to social, cultural, economic, political changes in the ways people communicate, a set of technologies, practices, and skills some call participatory media
“Create. Share. Get noticed. That’s what Ourmedia is about.
Ourmedia is a global community and learning center where you can gain visibility for your works of personal media. We’ll host your media forever for free.
Video blogs, photo albums, home movies, podcasting, digital art, documentary journalism, home-brew political ads, music videos, audio interviews, digital storytelling, children’s tales, Flash animations, student films, mash-ups all kinds of digital works have begun to flourish as the Internet rises up alongside big media as a place where we’ll gather to inform, entertain and astound each other.”
Go, now, check it out! Upload your content.
And if you’re a woman artist, writer, thinker, musician… please, please PLEASE build a profile and upload some content (and PS - Ourmedia needs more women contributors)
I haven’t spent enough time there to provide much of an overview but I like it so far. I like Ourmedia because it features some of the best new social software tools built into a relevant context for content creators (as opposed to people looking for hangout buddies). And they don’t have a craptacular TOS like some of the other, more corporate YASNS. But I wouldn’t call Ourmedia a YASN. It’s much more.
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