User-Created Content: Problems of Genre Formation

User created content with MMS

In this paper the architecture of a mobile network messaging system where Multimedia Messages (MMS) can be sent to a web page or application for creation of content by users is investigated. The currently specified architecture of MMS is evaluated and it is shown that the IP data based nature of the service makes it ideal for user created content services. The billing and charging issues for MM...

The Impact of User-Created Content on Traditional News

User Created Content Privacy or Big Brother Is Watching You

In the last couple of years, the diversity of online cultures on the Internet is being enriched for a phenomenon called “user-created content”. Individuals are publicly sharing their thoughts, preferences, experiences, and feelings in the form of up-to-date online profiles and journals of their lives. Freedom of individual expression and the potential for unlimited participation in producing an...

Legal and Organizational Issues in Collaborative User-Created Content

In this paper we look at issues that arise when people collaboratively create digital content and want to publicly distribute it. Our focus is on the organizational and legal problems. We identify and analyze these issues based on four case studies on amateur content production. Two of the cases, Habbo Hotel and Neverwinter Nights, are about fan/gamer-created content production based on materia...

How is a Genre Created? Five Combinatory Hypotheses

In his article, "How is a Genre Created? Five Combinatory Hypotheses," Johan F. Hoorn discusses that in genre theory, the creation of a genre is usually envisioned as a complex selection procedure in which several factors play an equivocal role. First, he advances that genre usually is investigated at the level of the phenomenon. For instance, questions may drawn on the effects of social status...