Being a produser is stemming off from something thats already been made and adding to it and instead of just being the user of a website but part producer. There are many different ways that a person can become a produser; to which Bruns describes, for example there's 'user-led production'. I've previously spoke of Meikle work and how he spoke of the 'Indymedia', a site that allows people to create their own news, instead of leaving it up to big news corpations on the tv, the site is very popular and people are able to produce texts that are news worthy. Secondly there's 'collaborative engagement', whereby people extend existing material, 'wikipedia' would be an example of how this is implemented, as people are allowed to add information onto the site.
Obviously there's flaws with the term produser, like flaming and being able trust these people are able to interact with these website's. However if there's too much control, does this then take away from the whole point. 'Indymedia' is available to anyone and has become a success without too much moderation. I think it just depends on the site and how its constructed, i think people immediately know how to behave when their on a website, there's like an unwritten construction there, maybe this is from the fact that some sites require registration,a fee, the sucess of the website or because of the content?
I think this trend will definately exist, commercial forces are apparent, 'YouTube' videos now have adverts within the video itself, but i don't think that the sucessful sites will be bought out and that will be the end of produsage. Afterall, websites need interaction, if there's no audience or sense of some community, then these sucessful websites will be overlooked by website that do provide these features.
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