Yes, I'm saying Produsage is a bit like Graffiti

How do issues such as authorship, copyright and open access impact your desire, ability and willingness to engage in produsage, both personally and professionally? 

I view produsage as synonymous with collaboration.

Take this crazy analogy...I once taught at a high school where graffiti was rampant in the restrooms. All over the walls, doors, and stalls you would find out who was in love, who was 'so hot', and a variety of other expletives that I won't repeat here...If you were a 'lurker' (like most of us were) you would read the comments but never contribute.  But if you did...if you were brave enough to say "Mr.Brook's class sux!" or whatever, you expected that it would be seen by others.  You didn't think that this was your own private stall and no one else would see your thoughts.  You were, in a sense, communicating and collaborating with nameless, faceless others.  That being said, if you don't want to actively participate or are worried about the sanctity of your professional or personal thoughts you probably shouldn't be a "produser" outside of limited access environments. 

However, there is something additional to keep in mind.  Don't believe everything you read.  I, for one, loved Mr.Brook's class and I did not think "For a good time, call the Principal" was a wise idea...

 Shirky said in 'Here Comes Everybody:  The Power of Organizing Without Organizations':

                    "Mass amateurization has created a filtering problem vastly larger than we had with traditional media, so much larger, in fact, that many of the old solutions are simply broken.  The brute economic logic of allowing anyone to create anything and make it available to anyone creates a staggering volume of new material, every day, that no group of professionals will be adequate to filter the material...The expansion of social media means that the only working system is publish-then-filer."  He goes on to say..."The expansion of social media means that the only working system is publish-then-filter (Shirky, 2008).
 This publish-then-filter system certainly applies here;  whether an individual decides to 'take' authorship or not is no guarantee that their material is worth reading.

 

*ps-yes, I know graffiti is vandalism and a crime punishable by something, probably, and produsage is not.  Whatever.