Columbia Institute for Tele-Information Columbia Teachers College
120th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Grace Dodge Hall 177-179
New York NY 10027
USA
USER GENERATED CONTENT:
From Threat to Opportunity
April 17, 2009
9:00am - 5:00pm
Columbia University
New York, NY
The rapid increase of user-generated content on the Internet is a
source of concern for traditional media firms. Will the YouTubes,
Facebooks, Flickrs, Second Lifes and the HuffPos take away significant
audience segments on a sustaining basis? What are the ramifications for
intellectual property law, for the trust of news sources, for political
polarization? Will reputational systems and wikis replace traditional
institutional authorities? The symposium will review findings on
current web user behavior and on evolving online business models to
better understand the contours of these new economic and social
realities-- let's call it Web 3.0.
