Case Studies/EdgeX
By employing a range of Creative Commons licences alongside standard copyright and public domain licences, edgeX encourages users to modify and mash up one another’s contributions, thereby ideally creating a continuous stream of content evolving over time in the hands of a varied community of participants. — Axel Bruns and Sal Humphreys
Overview
The Emergent Digital Grassroots eXpo (edgeX) project is a research and application initiative which aims to map grassroots and amateur content creation, focusing on community engagement with new media and strengthening local identity. Centred around Ipswich, Queensland (pop. 150,000), the site explores whether participants’ sense of local, geographic community can be enhanced through the use of Internet technologies expressing local themes.
Coordinated by the Institute for Creative Industries and Innovation at the Queensland University of Technology, edgeX is a partnership project with the University of Queensland and the Ipswich City Council. Launched in 2006, the project is funded for a three-year period through the Australian Research Council (ARC). The first stage of edgeX has involved the creation of a website, which allows the uploading of multimedia content, combining the functionality of a YouTube-style video site, a Flickr-like photo site, and blogs and podcasts. The site provides functionality for commenting, rating, and tagging, allows the development of specific user groups which evolve their own self-moderation structures, and contains a competition and exhibition space as a central feature. Competitions are seen as an optimum way to generate both interest and content for the edgeX site whilst building further community connections.
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