Users like you? Theorizing agency in user-generated content

By J. Dijck. 2009

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Communication, Literature and Literary Theory

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Using APIs for Data Collection on Social Media (2014, neutral): “ At the same time, lurkers are by far the predominant group of users of social media (e.g. van Dijck 2009).”
Capitalizing on the look: insights into the glance, attention economy, and Instagram (2018, background): “However, whereas watching was once perceived as passive and wholly exploited labor (Smythe, 1977), the online “produser” is perceived as somewhat agentic in the creation of content to be looked at (Bruns, 2007; Dijck, 2009).”
Social media? It's serious! Understanding the dark side of social media (2018, background): “Along with the content produced by the conversation functionality of social media, the content shared by social media users often constitutes user-generated content (UGC), i.e., the audio, video, images, and text created by users of an online system (Berthon et al., 2015; van Dijck, 2009).”
An anatomy of a YouTube meme (2012, background): “The blogosphere is calling it a ‘meme’.”
Influence of personality on travel-related consumer-generated media creation (2011, background): “Similarly, a number of previous studies (Nonnecke & Preece, 2001; Tedjamulia, Olsen, Dean, & Albrecht, 2005; Van Dijck, 2009) understood CGM behaviors in terms of the level of participation.”
The politics of ‘platforms’ (2010, background): “These drive decisions about content, availability, organization and participation (van Dijck, 2009).”
The Selfie Assemblage (2015, background): “Finally, selfies presume a networked audience and its language of Web 2.0 content, meaning that they invite digital-vernacular expression and user-generated content typical of this era (van Dijck, 2009).”
Posting, commenting, and tagging: Effects of sharing news stories on Facebook (2015, background): “Additionally, this study focused solely on the effects of sharing news content, but more people are content receivers than distributors (van Dijck, 2009), so it is imperative to assess how interacting with this content as a receiver impacts involvement in news topics.”