Amateur Footage: A Global Study of User-Generated Content

Wardle, Claire; Dubberley, Sam; Brown, Peter D.

doi:10.7916/d88s526v

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“…On 22 November 1963, the best video footage of the assassination of President John Kennedy was captured by ordinary citizen Abraham Zapruder, a clothing manufacturer, despite its occurrence during a previously planned and public event. Such footage has been considered one of the first notorious User-Generated Content (Wardle et al, 2014), or simply UGC. Zapruder's images were sold, and some frames were displayed on print a week later in Life Magazine, but the video was only made public on national television 12 years later (Zaid et al, 1998).…”

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Politicizing witnessing: Testimonial user-generated content in the aftermath of Rousseff’s impeachment in Brazil

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2023

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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This research presents the concept of testimonial User-Generated Content (tUGC): media content generated by ordinary citizens that witness an extraordinary event and publish it on their own channels. Rooted on the crossroads of UGC and Witnessing studies, this article provides a definition and a proposition of operationalization of tUGC in a case analysis, using two protests against former Brazilian president Rousseff’s impeachment in 2016 as case of study. Results suggest three main patterns of tUGC production, named as political, journalistic and expressive. Quantitative analysis points to a high frequency of production but to low levels of diffusion of tUGC overall in the context of the analysed case. Finally, results suggest external factors seem to have effect on general patterns of tUGC production and circulation. Discussion and further developments are offered.

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confidence: 99%