Chris, I prefer the concept of co-creation in this context. But otherwise agree.
On 20/02/2008, Christine Boese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Consumer-Generated Content." As in, huh?! Who came up with that brilliant > term? Will it one day fall into the annals of "jumbo shrimp" et al? > > I'm less offended by the term "user-generated content," because making use > of something is doing something, an active activity. Consumer? A consumer > is > one who consumes something that is made by someone else. So what the hell > is > "consumer-generated content" except what (I suspect) is a marketing > industry's deep structure refusal to accept the idea of active > participants, > CREATORS, makers, speakers with real voices, rather than the dominant > marketing desire for compliant, passive, happy with what they are > spoon-fed, > "consumers." (we could dig even deeper for irony here, and note the > history > of tuberculous gave us a term for what happens when consumers consume > themselves... Consumption?) > > Chris > > > Steve -- ---------------------------------------------- Steve 'Doc' Baty B.Sc (Maths), M.EC, MBA Principal Consultant Meld Consulting M: +61 417 061 292 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] UX Statistics: http://uxstats.blogspot.com Member, UPA - www.upassoc.org Member, IxDA - www.ixda.org Contributor - UXMatters - www.uxmatters.com ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
