Relationships with media can be of different kinds. Here we consider one obvious, conventional and popular kind of relationship.
The one that kinda pushes itself forward in the digital-cultural 'media' space seems to be 'open learning', conducted as 'distance learning', via delivered courses to cohorts of students and via repos of open-access media - for example, MOOCs (massive open online courses).
There's a curriculum, there might be master-classes or gurus or talking heads; there's an audience. There might be certification. This maybe kinda makes sense if, for example, there is an attempt at propagation of 'a common culture', or transmission of a 'legacy' or 'canon'. Maybe it makes sense if people want to 'just learn' in a somewhat passive way.
Maybe it makes sense as a kind of 'journalism' - a curated space of **'news from elsewhere'** (which is an important ethos, I would say). > News from elsewhere - To be added xxx
Open-source tools - actually, assemblages of tools (a mini-toolstack) - like Moodle and Canvas, are in this space. It's a 'delivery' model, of media and audience.
Within the assemblage, Canvas for example includes tools whose affordances are supposed to be in peer-to-peer collaboration and conversation - messaging, a forum. Personal experience suggests, though, that in in 'massive' (the M in MOOC) audiences, fruitful collaborative production can be hard to crystallise. And further, that bald text-chat and conventional (uncurated) forums don't go much of the way down this road of affordance. Affordances for self-mapping and shared-mapping are quite absent. See next item.