Monthly Archives: July 2010

As we know, discussions round UGC have a tendency to polarise between the ‘end of civilisation as we know it’ and ‘the dawning of the age of aquarius’, but both of these totalising positions don’t take account of the crazed heterogeneity of content that is out there, or begin to differentiate in the ways the last post started to. In this post I want to argue that our use of media through online UGC is obviously ’empowering’ as a form of literacy; people want to write media because they understand that they live in societies where mediated knowledge, information and experience are sites of enormous power and wealth. Continue reading →