USER GENERATED CONTENT

“How User Generated Content from Iranian Citizen Journalists helped the BBC Persian News”



“How User Generated Content from Iranian Citizen Journalists helped the BBC Persian News”

 

Introduction

To be able to understand the effect of UGC (User Generated Content) in helping the BBC Persian News reporting, it is essential to have a concrete understanding of UGC itself. User Generated Content (also abbreviated as UGC, lowercase, also called a user-driven content), stands for media content that is not created by the provider of a website, but is actually created by its users. UGC is used especially by media to increase its capacity of getting information form a mass source, where they themselves cannot go because of political or other restrictions.

In recent decade, one of the major concerns for Medias is having more access to audience's materials because of its shear diversity and lack of restriction. The effects of citizen journalism and their products on media production, especially on news coverage have been invariant concern for media organizations and journalists in recent years. Because of UGC, media agencies do not have to be at the right place at the right time, they can simply use UGC from the people who were art the right place at the right time, and make the information public news. Some of the most shocking and informative news has been provided by users who managed to film events or crimes otherwise impossible to record by a normal news team (torture, execution, etc.).

In terms of user generated contends in reference to the BBC Persian, it is vital to keep in mind it significance in the mind of the people. Viewers want to offer something that Persians have never had, a sustained attempt to provide a fair reflection of reality, including their own opinions of viewers, both in the air and on the network. Responsible for what in the jargon of the new media is called "user-generated content". An individual spoke passionately about the issue responsibly, wanting an equally media, free of Iranian control and free of British control of the most important debates that are developed in the Iranian blogosphere. For his efforts, he was imprisoned for three weeks.

Literature Review

According to the work of Kiss (2004), the purpose of these media is to get information for a mass pool of sources. The content is generated based on the interests they defend, and the economic benefit they seek of the employer or business group that directs the flow of information, usually concentrated in large groups of communication media, and influence your audience ideologically and through advertising. In addition to this, journalists are overwhelmed by the onslaught of amateurs. Never before have they managed so many "user generated content" in the program (BBC Persian). It is the only way media agencies can find out what happened. Of many protests, there are no professional television images, because turning is outlawed in Iran, and only mobile phone videos and photos are used for generating the ...