http://www.socialmediaclub.org/2007/04/27/social-media-now-diy-media-makers-arise/ A community for the champions of Social Media and those seeking to learn Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:07:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.socialmediaclub.org/2007/04/27/social-media-now-diy-media-makers-arise/#comment-17095 Jason Chervokas Fri, 04 May 2007 02:06:30 +0000 http://www.socialmediaclub.org/2007/04/27/social-media-now-diy-media-makers-arise/#comment-17095 Eric, I'm in total agreement--enterprised created content has traditionally functioned as a jumping off point for participatory media (think sports talk radio). What I struggle with is the nomenclature. Clearly there's a difference--at least for the time being--between enterprise created stuff and individually created stuff. The difference need not be qualitative--nore, to Jenn's point, need it heirarchical at all except in terms of time--one piece of content, enterprise-made or individually-made, has to come first in a thread. Eric, I’m in total agreement–enterprised created content has traditionally functioned as a jumping off point for participatory media (think sports talk radio). What I struggle with is the nomenclature. Clearly there’s a difference–at least for the time being–between enterprise created stuff and individually created stuff. The difference need not be qualitative–nore, to Jenn’s point, need it heirarchical at all except in terms of time–one piece of content, enterprise-made or individually-made, has to come first in a thread.

]]> http://www.socialmediaclub.org/2007/04/27/social-media-now-diy-media-makers-arise/#comment-17042 Eric Alterman Thu, 03 May 2007 13:56:40 +0000 http://www.socialmediaclub.org/2007/04/27/social-media-now-diy-media-makers-arise/#comment-17042 Perhaps it's not important to draw a qualitative distinction between "User" and "Corporate" media. In this context the term "Corporate" (with capital C) might imply something nefarious to some, which need not be the case. My view is that the job of "editorial" content (e.g. content created by a website host) is to initiate conversations on subjects contextually relevant to a particular website. So the website publisher is a kind of party host and it's up to her to generate content that will motivate her guests to contribute their own content to the conversation. Contributors have different roles, but no hierarchy is necessarily implied so long as the party host is not a blow-hard. Eric Alterman, Founder KickApps Corporation Perhaps it’s not important to draw a qualitative distinction between “User” and “Corporate” media. In this context the term “Corporate” (with capital C) might imply something nefarious to some, which need not be the case. My view is that the job of “editorial” content (e.g. content created by a website host) is to initiate conversations on subjects contextually relevant to a particular website. So the website publisher is a kind of party host and it’s up to her to generate content that will motivate her guests to contribute their own content to the conversation. Contributors have different roles, but no hierarchy is necessarily implied so long as the party host is not a blow-hard.
Eric Alterman, Founder KickApps Corporation

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]]> http://www.socialmediaclub.org/2007/04/27/social-media-now-diy-media-makers-arise/#comment-15653 Jenn Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:27:25 +0000 http://www.socialmediaclub.org/2007/04/27/social-media-now-diy-media-makers-arise/#comment-15653 Kaplan's discussion around the term UGC is a semantics debate and one that makes no sense to me. But if I wanted to peel back a layer, I would point out that his interpretation presupposes the "User" class as less than the Corporate class. Why can't the "User" class be, in fact, a higher class that subjugates others in this hierarchy? After all UGC is constantly being mixed in with traditional media content and Corporations are starting to get that their content just isn't good enough. Kaplan’s discussion around the term UGC is a semantics debate and one that makes no sense to me. But if I wanted to peel back a layer, I would point out that his interpretation presupposes the “User” class as less than the Corporate class. Why can’t the “User” class be, in fact, a higher class that subjugates others in this hierarchy? After all UGC is constantly being mixed in with traditional media content and Corporations are starting to get that their content just isn’t good enough.

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