In recent years, there has been a rise in the use of user generated content. This involves members of the public sending pictures of events, such as the July 7th bombings in London, to networks such as the BBC. Without developments such as camera phones and e-mail this would not be possible. Researchers have predicted that by 2010 more than 70% of digital content in the world will have been created by consumers.
Those employed in mainstream media ask:-
- what will support this?
- who will pay for the bandwidth needed to host the 100 million video streams YouTube provides every day?
Before the development of user-generated content consumers didn't create media and only consumed.
Nick Carr "one of the fundamental economic characteristics of Web 2.0 is the distribution of production into the hands of the few. It's a sharecropping system, but the sharecroppers are generally happy because their interest lies in self-expression or socialising, not in making money, and besides, the economic value of each of their individual contributions is trivial. It's only by aggregating those contributions on a massive scale - on a web scale - that the business becomes lucrative."
Emily Bell - We're all reporters in the digital democracy
Previously, the public's contribution to the media has been limited to items such as letter's pages in newspapers.
the speed, volume and type of response that has been made possible by the Internet, broadband media and digitised media has changed in recent years contributing to the increase in user-generated content in the media.
even since the terror attacks on september 11th 2001, the way news is reported has changed dramatically due to the public become so much more involved in the way news in reported. this is shown by reports of the july 7th bombings and the tsunami on boxing day 2004.
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