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In today’s Age of Participation, co-creation, user-generated content and social networking have become part of a mass-appeal digital lifestyle. This paper discusses potential implications for contemporary and future media art in the context of the stage. It reflects on why and how interactive performances could give consideration to this Zeitgeist of empowered spectatorship and, moreover, propo...

This paper considers the creation and consumption of content on user generated content (UGC) platforms, e.g., reviews, articles, chat, videos, etc. On these platforms, users’ expectations regarding the participation of others on the site become germane to their own involvement levels. Accordingly, we develop a dynamic rational expectations equilibrium model of joint consumption and generation o...

Perkembangan teknologi telah merubah perilaku konsumen dalam mengkonsumsi media. Kegiatan Marketing PR yang dilakukan perusahaan ikut berinovasi supaya dapat diterima pesan disampaikan oleh masyarakat target audience nya. User generated content atau konten buatan pengguna muncul sebagai salah satu inovasi popular digunakan. Salah produk sukses menggunakan strategi Generated Content adalah Mitoc...

User attribute classification aims to identify users’ attributes (e.g., gender, age and profession) by leveraging user generated content. However, conventional approaches to user attribute classification focus on single attribute classification involving only one user attribute, which completely ignores the relationship among various user attributes. In this paper, we confront a novel scenario ...

This study examines the importance of the proposed components of Consumer Empowerment through User-Generated Content (UGC) in the travel industry. Researchers have argued that a single common conception of Empowerment is not appropriate across all disciplines and across all contexts. By employing the Uses & Gratifications and Dual-Process Theories, we propose that Consumer Empowerment in the co...

The impact of user-generated content (UGC), especially negative UGC on enterprises is well recognized. From the perspective of enterprises, different strategies of enterprise-generated content (EGC) have also been adapted to response to the unexpected UGC, but few studies have investigated the influence of such strategies on the UGC propagation. This research examines which strategy on the nega...

Description The need for quick-turnaround, high-volume machine translation (MT) projects continues to grow in the localization industry. There is a wide range of quality requirements not only across different clients, but often within a single client across different content types (sales & marketing materials, user-generated content, website content, user manuals, etc.). Most clients have style...

Sentiment extraction from user-generated online content to predict stock price movements has become an active research field. This paper gives an overview of common approaches to this topic and analyzes the content generated by the financial social network Seekingalpha.com. The first finding is that a large proportion of users’ attention is focused on only a few stocks. Regarding these stocks i...