DIY Culture and Design
Modern Contemporary society coupled with constantly evolving technology,
Allowing you easy access to the DIY kind of life
I have finally reached my last blog, it has been a somewhat tiring and challenging journal, as I am new to all this blogging type stuff I have only just figured out how to add tags to my collection of works. Maybe I should of taken more notice in tutorials! Today I will be discussing DIY Culture and it’s scope, which has is increasing with the evolution of the internet.
In a this day and age, the internet has opened up a whole new meaning to DIY, it’s no longer about going down to your local Mitre 10 and buying some nails, glue and chipboard in a vain hope you will finish with a new dining room table, it’s now about hoping onto the net, fishing around for a bit and writing creating, criticizing, uploading, downloading and collaborating, with content others have produced and you are acting on. This idea has been termed produsage (Bruns 2008).
New media and especially web2.0 has allowed for the DIY culture to expand, it is more accessible. The fact we are here in university, blogging for an assignment demonstrates the role within society that new media is playing. Anyone can produce anything on the internet nowadays, with the digitized society, industries are being decentralized, and this is pushing us to produce more content.
The music industry is a fine example of how DIY culture and design is changing the way society works. With the internet, it is very simply to record yourself and put your music onto the web. Myspace and YouTube for example anyone can upload themselves, there is more scope to Do it yourself. This produsage has developed as the internet evolves. Web 2.0 has not only unlocked the gate so to speak but has pushed it open it front of us. User-led content is constantly becoming easier to create and more sophisticated.
DIY is everywhere and it’s brilliant.
DIY Culture and Design
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I really enjoyed reading your blogs, great writing skills (: Since I haven’t read the whole chapter on DIY culture and design, I stumbled upon your blogs and read about it and had a clear idea what I can write about, you mentioned the music industry and I think some of the underground music industry gets a lot of credit now that anyone can upload their music to their myspace or YouTube or both. Some of my friends are DJ’s and they made a career out of doing it all themselves, promoting themselves and uploading videos of their gigs on to their myspace. One of them is now in Siberia, Russia because his gigs were seen on MySpace and his music was an interest to them so he went over there to play at a Festival. Some of them travel all over the world to play at a Festival, and some make household names for themselves in this small music genre. It’s amazing how much can be done now because of the DIY culture and now with web 2.0 it’s getting even more bigger and better.