Writers who work for nothing: it's a liscence to print money
An article by John Naughton for The Observer:
- Discusses the media that has become known as user-generated content e.g. images taken from mobile phones.
- The London bombings of 7 July 2005 marked the first time we had seen this type of content have an impact on the british news media, they were not able to get the image sources thay needed for such a large and widespread event, so looked to the public for footage- it flooded in.
- The world's total digital content last year amounted to a massive 161 billion gigabytes!
- The researchers predicted that by 2010 more than 70% of all digital content in the world will have been created by consumers.
- Optimists see this a way for millions of people to express themselves and their creativity on the ineternet freely.
- Media moguls are becoming wise to this new consumer creativity, they are realising that this type of content could help their business as people are willing to give it for free as long as you give them space to publish.
- Therefore the distribution of production is now being put into the hands of millions but the economic rewards to a few, however it is not about money for the public, simply about self-expression and socialising.
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