UContent: The Information Professional's Guide to User-Generated Content

摘要

In this whizzy all-singing, all-dancing cyberworld that the modern LIS practitioner now inhabits new terms, concepts and systems are spewed forth relentlessly -cybercartography, flickr, Yahoo Pipes. Social tagging, self-publishing-the list seems endless and mutates constantly. Sisyphus would feel at home here. To try to deal with this flood (in typical American breezy style) the author takes the encompassing theme of "User Generated Content" and produces a helpful-if rather dense-book on this whole rapidly evolving topic-a state of the art handbook in essence. Key questions always asked of the information in the internet are "credibility" and "authority"-can User Generated Content have any credibility or be taken seriously when every Tom, Dick and Harry can get his sage comments (or obsessive ravings) on the web? The furore over Wikipedia entries and TripAdvisor Reviews seem to buttress the scepticism of many readers about the value and currency of such sites.