Hatsune Miku: An Exploration of the Collaboration Creation Community

Web technology literally connects us to the world. It allows numerous people to connect and ultimately collaborate on everything from political debate to creative design.  This network of individuals evolves into what is called a “collaboration creation community” or where

Initial Ramblings on Hatsune Miku

I’ll just go ahead and admit that I had no prior knowledge of Hatsune Miku prior to seeing the name listed in Buzzword.  As I discovered more, I had to fend off my biases with a bullwhip while I tried to figure out what the h-e-double-hockey sticks was going on.  To quote a guy my wife encountered in a theater showing Titanic during the scene of old Rose tossing the necklace into the ocean, “Now why’d you go and do a thing like that?!”

Then, as we self-proclaimed scholars are supposed to do, I began to peel back the layers, and I realized that behind the holographic concert image, this was simply the work of creative people pushing the