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User-generated content

User-generated content (UGC), alternatively known as user-created content (UCC), is content generated by users of the Internet such as images, videos, audio, text, testimonials, software, and user interactions. Online content aggregation platforms such as social media, discussion forums and wikis by their interactive and social nature, no longer produce m…

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Definition

Media pluralism

History

Motivation for creating UGC

Paid content

Ranking and assessment

Types

Effect on journalism

Use in marketing

Criticism

Legal issues

Research

General sources

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User-generated content

Nodes200
Edges199
Triples215
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.01
Components1

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User-generated content

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related to Motivation for creating UGC · 29
User-generated content → Amazon Mechanical Turk, Answers, Canadian, Direct, Due, Examples, Explicit, External, For, However, Implicit, Instagram, It, Likewise, Naver Knowledge-iN, On, Social, Sometimes, The, There
related to Copyright laws · 18
User-generated content → Copyright, Defamation Act, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, DMCA, Electronic Commerce Directive, Furthermore, In, ISP, ISPs, Just, Limitation Act, Local, OCILLA, Online Copyright Infringement Liability, Section, The European Union's, UK, United States
related to Types · 17
User-generated content → Another, Facebook, Fandom, Instagram, Internet, Media, Snapchat, Some, There, TikTok, Tumblr, Twitch, Twitter, Vimeo, VK, Wikipedia, YouTube
related to Educational · 14
User-generated content → Educational, Green, Khan Academy, Organizations, Personal, Platforms, Shmoop, SparkNotes, Students, The, There, Wikipedia, Yahoo Messenger, YouTube
related to Legal issues · 14
User-generated content → An, But, Communications Decency Act, Depending, For, In, It, Section, Sometimes, The, There, This, United States, Web
related to Use in marketing · 13
User-generated content → Additionally, An, As, Coca-Cola, Coke, Companies, For, Of, Share, Starbucks, The, UGC, White Cup Contest
related to Effect on journalism · 9
User-generated content → BBC's, In, July, LiveJournal, London, MySpace, Since, The, Web
related to Paid content · 9
User-generated content → According, Gen-Z, In, It, It's, Paid UGC, Research, UGC, UGC Creator
related to Definition · 8
User-generated content → Citizen Media, Conversational, Grassroots, Internet, People, The, User-generated, Web
related to history · 8
User-generated content → As Simon Winchester, English-speaking, In, London Philological Society, OED, Oxford English Dictionary, Richard Chenevix Trench, The

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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
imagesinstance ofis content generated by users of the Internet0.80text
videosinstance ofis content generated by users of the Internet0.80text
audioinstance ofis content generated by users of the Internet0.80text
textinstance ofis content generated by users of the Internet0.80text
testimonialsinstance ofis content generated by users of the Internet0.80text
softwareinstance ofis content generated by users of the Internet0.80text
and user interactionsinstance ofis content generated by users of the Internet0.80text
social mediainstance ofOnline content aggregation platforms0.80text
discussion forumsinstance ofOnline content aggregation platforms0.80text
wikis by their interactiveinstance ofOnline content aggregation platforms0.80text
social natureinstance ofOnline content aggregation platforms0.80text
no longer produce multimedia content but provide tools to produceinstance ofOnline content aggregation platforms0.80text

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