week 5 Burns part 1

produsage will last because more games like the Sims are being developed like the new Nintendo games such as animal crossing in which the users create their own pets and can also interact with other users with their own environment. Programs such as YouTube also encourage produsage the process still continues to expand from just being text based to audio visual material. The only concern with using YouTube as a produsage site is that recently it was purchased by Google which is a big cooperation which revolves around advertizing and commercialization and the evidence of this is being seen on the YouTube sit with promoted videos as well as pop ups at the side of the screen. So a free space that was available for people to use is now being taken up by a majority of commercial material.