[Air-L] Research on Content Creators?

Dan Perkel dperkel at ischool.berkeley.edu
Wed Aug 10 16:34:34 PDT 2011


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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