Quality in Collaborative Digital Media Production

A key part in the notion of new media politics is the idea of new ways of producing media, ways where non-professionals (the so called former media consumers now turned into producers) create new forms of media productions, either in collaborations with professionals or in other forms of coalitions. From a democratic point of view, this is great. But from an aesthetic? During the symposium some rather critical comments were made about the quality of the work produced by the bloggers during the Mamö festival and about the quality of the filming in Rosengård (we are not talking about the problem with the broadcast to the Black Box but about the filming as such). However, we did not have the time to discuss this in detail.

What kinds of qualities did the work of the bloggers have, and what kinds of qualities more generally do these new kinds of media products – available on YouTube and other places on the web – actually have?

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