User Generated Content, known as UGC, has changed the media landscape and business models. UGC includes anything from video, images, text, blogs, and even audio. It has launched protest campaigns, provided eyewitness accounts of major events, been monetized by influencers and brands and perhaps most importantly changed the way we consume news.  

Please join us and our guest, Dr. Claire Wardle, co-founder and co-director of the Information Futures Lab, and Professor of the Practice at the Brown School of Public Health, to examine the consequences of user generated content on how we view ourselves and the world we live in.

Sources:

• Information Futures Lab at Brown University School of Public Health
  
  
• User Generated Content Represents 39% of Time Spent with Media 
  
  
• Claire Wardle Ted Talk
  
  
• Time Magazine Person of the Year 2006
  

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