{"id":832,"date":"2008-02-27T04:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T10:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=832"},"modified":"2008-02-27T04:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T10:51:00","slug":"the-barriers-to-user-generated-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/02\/the-barriers-to-user-generated-content\/","title":{"rendered":"The barriers to user-generated content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">M<\/span>y colleague at City University, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Neil Thurman<\/span>, has published his latest study on user-generated content (UGC). You can read a pre-press version on his <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.city.ac.uk\/journalism\/people\/faculty\/thurman_publications.html\">webpage<\/a>. The headlines?<br \/><span id=\"fullpost\"><br \/>UGC is being held back by: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Legal liabilities<\/span> &#8211; publish and be damned.<\/p>\n<p>2. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Moderation costs<\/span> &#8211; \u201c80 per cent of the user generated content initiatives launched by the publications surveyed for the study were edited or pre-moderated. These costs have not yet been fully off-set by the revenues generated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>3. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Low participation <\/span>&#8211; not enough users actually generating content.<\/p>\n<p>4. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Insularity<\/span> &#8211; the narrowness of some UGC.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My colleague at City University, Neil Thurman, has published his latest study on user-generated content (UGC). You can read a pre-press version on his webpage. The headlines?UGC is being held back by: 1. Legal liabilities &#8211; publish and be damned. 2. Moderation costs &#8211; \u201c80 per cent of the user generated content initiatives launched by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[289],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}