[Air-L] Research on Content Creators?

[Yosem Companys]

Either...  Just doing a literature review at this time, so trying to find
any research that's out there on this topic...

Thanks,

Yosem

On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Dan Perkel <dperkel at ischool.berkeley.edu>wrote:

> By trying to better understand "who these content producers are," does this
> mean you are looking for qualitative studies or surveys of people who post
> (anything) to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, etc.?
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan
>
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu>wrote:
>
>> Varies...  In some cases, it's about sending emails to mailing lists, so
>> only a subsection do that.  But then there are those who post versus view
>> photos on Twitter, or those who post versus view videos on YouTube.  In
>> these studies, however, they tend to focus on the comparison between content
>> producers/consumers but don't describe who these content producers are.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Dan Perkel <dperkel at ischool.berkeley.edu
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Yosem,
>>>
>>> Do the studies to which you are alluding say what they mean by "content"?
>>> That may help answer the question.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Dan
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------
>>> Dan Perkel
>>> PhD Candidate
>>> School of Information, Berkeley Center for New Media
>>> UC Berkeley
>>> http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~dperkel
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> There's a lot of research that shows that only 1-10% of people in online
>>>> communities and social networks create content.  Is there any research
>>>> that
>>>> shows who these people are, what do they make, and so on?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Yosem
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