Tag Archives: user generated content

Free labor? An attempt to determine the value of user generated content – for the user

Joep Hegger | 04 October 2011, 11:18 am | tags: , , , , , ,

Writings on the value of user generated content tend to stress the (market) value users produce for companies such as Facebook by adding content, labeling these activities as “free labor”. Assuming that there must also be something in it for the users generating the content, this text proposes ways to assess the amount of monetary and social value users gain from engaging in these activities.

Politwittic

Jorien De Wandeler | 26 April 2011, 10:31 pm | tags: , ,

Politics in the age of new media have different characteristics than the politics before the year 2000. Since its launch, the World Wide Web revealed itself as a powerful tool to reach a large part of the (wealthy) population. The Pew Institute reported that more than 55 percent of the adult population in the United States got their news and…

Editor Generated Content?

Agathe Wiedemair | 04 October 2010, 12:40 pm | tags: , , , ,

I am a passive Wikipediaist, and as of this weekend, I will stick with that role. I use Wikipedia mainly as a source of quick, (semi)reliable information; yet I do not share stronger bonds with this particular cyber institution. I believe that the notion of Wikipedia as a space of open, democratic and participatory knowledge-sharing is exaggerated.

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WikiAdmin: No Recent Changes

Marte Lindstrom | 03 October 2010, 7:09 pm | tags: , ,

After being asked to write a Wikipedia article I soon realised that the challenge would not be related to the technical side of things, but rather to coming up with a topic. It was difficult to think of a topic that  is not yet part of the over 3.4 million articles that make up the English version of Wikipedia.…

Rage Against the Machine

Natalie Dixon | 03 October 2010, 5:05 pm | 1 comment | tags: , ,

Can you only make a Wikipedia entry if your subject has been covered in the mainstream press a gazillion times? How do underground, guerilla, new subcultures or artists get exposure on Wiki? Short answer: they don’t. I referenced the Het Parool and the Dutch entry for this graffiti artist is hardly different to mine. Laser been published for Pete’s sake. His book is available in the American Book Centre and yet I can’t keep a Wiki entry on him alive for longer than 5 minutes and 35 seconds.

Africa Unsigned: the Professionalizing of User Input

Erik van Bemmelen | 30 September 2010, 2:49 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

In the past years the Internet has been flooded with user generated content. The theory on new media has subsequently been flooded with research into this phenomenon, that is commonly centered around the web 2.0 concept. This theorizing of the beautiful possibilities and promises of freedom on the Internet has become almost tiresome. What I want to do here, is…

Book review of “Against The Machine – Being Human In The Age Of The Electronic Mob” by Lee Siegel

Maarten Hoogvliet | 17 September 2009, 7:24 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

Lee Siegel was born in New York in 1957 and has Bachelor, Master and Master of Philosophy degrees from Columbia University.

While working as a staff writer at The New Republic, an American magazine on politics and the arts, he encountered anonymous comments on articles in the blog section: “Mr. Siegel came onto many peoples sanctuary, pissed in…

In Memoriam GeoCities (1994-2009)

| 03 May 2009, 4:05 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Yahoo! will soon pull the plug on the once-famous GeoCities.com. The passing of this iconic Internet site is interesting for two reasons. Firstly, GeoCities (and its competitors like Tripod and Angelfire) were an important catalyst for the development of a World Wide Web with massive user-generated content. Secondly, Yahoo!’s incompetent handling of the GeoCities franchise gives interesting pointers about how online consumers will vote with their feet and abandon a once popular site when its terms of service are no longer to their liking.

Control Rates in User Generated Content: PoliticalBase.com, the Moderated Political Wikipedia

Liliana Bounegru | 22 September 2008, 2:27 pm | 1 comment | tags: , ,

 

Technological developments, resulting in free user-friendly interface applications, led to the second step in the evolution of the World Wide Web, the Web 2.0. The Web 2.0 reflects a paradigm shift, from the “read web”, another platform…

Book Review on ‘Here Comes Everybody’

Hannah Biemold | 15 September 2008, 1:00 am | 3 comments | tags: , ,

Review of the book ‘Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations’ by Clay Shirky about new tools of communication and organizing of groups on the Internet. What are the social implications and what will change?