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Dual Perspectives Article: Collaborative Culture
User-created online culture isn't "mass culture," exactly; no single blog post gets as much exposure as, say, an episode of American Idol. But it's culture by the masses. A Pew Internet & American Life Project poll in 2007 found that 64 percent of American teenagers were posting their own content online while 39 percent of teens were sharing art they had created. #The internet's vast, instantly accessible mountains of individually created text, images and sounds are examples of what economist Nicholas Gruen describes as "emergent public goods" — things that simply amass themselves into existence and serve the public interest. (Sometimes their service is particularly immediate, as when Twitter and Flickr provided real-time reports of last November's terrorist attacks in Mumbai and were picked up by such media gatekeepers as The New York Times.) #There's also a whole new category of "works" that has evolved with blog posts and online photo galleries: public commentary.
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