User-generated media != Social media

  • Jon Lund 

Things tends to mess up, the picture tends to blur. Take these two: User-generated media != (does NOT equal) Social media. Facebook owes its success to it’s relationship-qualities. As OhMyNews’ to its content-qualities.

Although off course users contribute with inputs to Facebook, and the appeal of Citizen Journalism is evolving around the ability to relate to the users who have generated the content, Facebook and OhMyNews are positioned differently.

Have a look at this map I’ve just drawn up! 

web 20 on two dimensions - content vs. networkcentered