UGC - User Generated Content
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CORE DEFINITION
User-generated content (UGC) refers to content contributed by users of a website or other open medium. Starting around 2005, many sites on the Internet began to widely use user-generated content as a service model, including image, video, blog, podcast, forum, review, social, wiki, Q&A, news, and research sites.
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User-generated content (UGC) refers to content contributed by users of a website or other open medium. Starting around 2005, many sites on the Internet began to widely use user-generated content as a service model, including image, video, blog, podcast, forum, review, social, wiki, Q&A, news, and research sites.
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User-generated content refers to content (posts, videos, comments) produced by platform users rather than professional institutions, and is a core aspect of Web 2.0. It brings scale and participation but also challenges in quality and governance.
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