A friend of mine just published an excellent critical article of web 2.0 services. It debates the web 2.0 companies’ relationship with its users’.
Mørk Petersen, S. (2008). Loser Generated Content: From Participation to Exploitation. In: First Monday. 13 (3).
There are some aspects of user driven content that I really find interesting in the article. Søren Mørk Petersen wrote a sentence which is just great:
“It is when the technological infrastructure and design of these sites is combined with capitalism that the architecture begins to oscillate between exploitation and participation.”
The author of the article Søren Mørk Petersen is currently a PhD candidate at the IT
