User-Generated Content (UGC) Understanding the Activity of Media Use in the Age of Digital Reproduction

User-generated content was launched in the early 1990s as a conceptfor describing media content produced outside of professional media institu-tions by everyday media users. It gained widespread popularity around 2005and in the article it is argued that the rise of the concept coincides with the in-...

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Published inDigital Roots Vol. 4; pp. 267 - 280
Main Author Bolin, Göran
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Boston De Gruyter 2021
SeriesStudies in Digital History and Hermeneutics
Subjects
amateur production
Digital transformations
Digitala transformationer
media content
media production
media users
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ISBN9783110739886
9783110740202
3110739887
3110740206
DOI10.1515/9783110740202-015

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Summary:User-generated content was launched in the early 1990s as a conceptfor describing media content produced outside of professional media institu-tions by everyday media users. It gained widespread popularity around 2005and in the article it is argued that the rise of the concept coincides with the in-teractive web and the ability for industrialized media and culture production totake advantage of the productivity of ordinary users. The article discusses firstthe frameworks of production of UGC, including the business models of theplatform economy into which this kind of content is drawn. Secondly it dis-cusses the types of users who generate content, and thirdly it accounts for someof the criticism the concept has met. The article ends with situating UGC in thelonger history of media production and suggests an explanation for why theconcept appeared at the time it did.
ISBN:9783110739886
9783110740202
3110739887
3110740206
DOI:10.1515/9783110740202-015