Session 3, Stream A: Creativity and the Internet Economy: Users, Governments and Citizens
STREAM A: User-created content: What are the impacts?
13.45-15.05
TK: 2.45am
PA: 7.45pm
NY: 1.45pm
LA: 10.45am |
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Michael Leblanc (Chair), Analyweb Inc./Blogger
Jungwook Lim, Vice President for Service Innovation, Daum Communications, Korea
Andres Monroy-Hernandez, MIT Media Lab, Lifelong Kindergarten Group
Jennifer Corriero, Executive Director, Co-founder of TakingITGlobal
Manon Ress, Director, Information Society Projects, Consumer Project on Technology |
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The rise of user-created content is based on "amateurs" producing, distributing, accessing and re-using information and content. These changes imply a shift from simple passive consumption to a more active role through increased user participation and autonomy. In addition to large structural impacts on cultural, educational, social and political activities, user-created content is increasingly important economically although most people are still consuming content rather than creating it. Critics of these impacts point out the limitations of social communities, the lack of inclusiveness as well as the quality of the content.
Questions to be addressed include:
- What is the profile of a content creator? What is the value of user created content and who determines this value?
- What are the social, cultural and educational impacts? What are the business impacts?
- How are virtual worlds developing, and how do they interact with existing regulation?
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