Knowra User-generated content User-generated content User-generated content is media created and shared by people rather than professional publishers or producers. It includes formats such as posts, videos, reviews, and collaborative reference works.
Content creation : The process of producing text, images, audio, video, or other media. People make the media that becomes user-generated content.
Wikipedia : A free online encyclopedia written and maintained collaboratively by volunteers. It demonstrates large-scale user contribution to a reference work.
Participatory culture : A culture in which people actively create, circulate, and respond to media. User-generated content is one of the central forms of cultural participation.
Mass media : Media distributed from centralized producers to large audiences through channels such as broadcasting and publishing. It contrasts with content made and distributed by users themselves.
Digital authorship : The creation and attribution of works produced or adapted through digital technologies. Collaborative editing and platform tools complicate who counts as an author.
Social media : Digital services that enable users to create, share, and interact around content. Social platforms provide common channels for publishing and circulating user-made media.
Online review : A public assessment of a product, service, place, or experience posted on the internet. Customer reviews turn individual experiences into shared decision-making material.
Prosumer : A person who both produces and consumes goods, services, or media. Users often act as both audiences and producers on content platforms.
Professional content : Media produced as paid work by trained creators or publishing organizations. Its production relies on professional roles and resources rather than primarily on voluntary user contributions.
Platform governance : The rules, policies, and decision processes by which digital platforms manage participation and content. Platforms set the conditions under which user contributions are published and governed.
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