Category Archives: geneaology

LOLcats vs. Ushahidi: Let’s get this straight

Posted on July 5, 2010 by jonathandovey

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 →

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Anatomising User-Generated Content

Posted on May 7, 2010 by nicktriggs

Posted on behalf of Professor Jonathan Dovey. In the preparation of materials for this symposium Sam Kinsley & I realised that we were working from quite different interpretations of the term ‘user generated content’. Given our different perspectives (ageing media … Continue reading →

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