Increasing user-generated content
Description:
User-generated content refers to media content produced or primarily influenced by end-users; as opposed to traditional media producers, licensed broadcasters, and production companies. It reflects the expansion of media production through new technologies that are accessible and affordable to the general public. These include digital video, blogging, podcasting, mobile phone photography and wikis. In addition to these technologies, user-generated content may also employ a combination of open source, free software, and flexible licensing or related agreements to further diminish the barriers to collaboration, skill-building and discovery.
More information at wikipedia [1]
Enablers:
1. Increasing use of internet [2]
2. Increasing use of digital media on internet [3]
3. Increasing number of people going online [4]
4. Increasing need of people for communication and information [5]
5. Increasing use and importance of Virtual Communities [6]
Inhibitors:
1. Increasing copyright issues
Paradigms:
1. Opinion is not longer a monopoly of the traditional mass-media outlets (newspapers, magazines, news channels, etc) but it is seriously quetioned by independent journalists
2. The content available on internet is not longer unmodifiable. Users can create, modify, share and comment on the content of internet pages. The net is becoming a display window to promote your own creations
3. Internet is not longer a spce for getting information but a space to share experiences and opinions
Experts:
Timing:
1983: Introduction of digital video
1988: The first digital camera is developed
1989: The Internet is opened to commercial use
1990: The world Wide Web (WWW) is created
1994: The first blog is created
2001: Wikipedia is launched
2001: Implementation of podcast
2003: My space is founded
2005: YouTube is founded
2005: BBC uses user-generated content to cover london bombings
Web Resources:
1. MySpace Homepage [7]
2. YouTube website[8]
3. Online Journalism Review [9]
4. Packaged Goods Media vs. Conversational Media: a comparison of UGC and professional/corporate media[10]
5. Wikipedia: an user-generated encyclopedia [11]