Gatekeeping is the process through which information is filtered for dissemination, whether for publication, broadcasting, the Internet, or some other mode of communication. The academic theory of gat
User-generated content, alternatively known as user-created content, is content generated by users of the Internet such as images, videos, audio, text, testimonials, software, and user interactions. O
Gatekeeping (communication)
…nurturing citizen journalism as reshaping the existing hierarchy of the journalism system. Kwon et al. (2013) also found that re-processed news items by user-generated content websites, or social media, are more frequently adopted by Twitter users than the direct news times from traditional mass media organizations, confirming…
An example of user-generated content, a personalised sign and objects in the virtual world of Second Life
The content of Wikipedia is written and generated by its users; therefore it can be called user-generated content.