User Generated Content 3.0: From Threat To Opportunity

April 17, 2009
9:00am - 6:00pm
Columbia University Teacher's College
Grace Dodge Building, Room 179
New York, NY

9:00 - 9:30 Setting the Stage: Introducing the Issues

Eli Noam- Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School and Director, CITI

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W. Russell Neuman- Evans Professor of Media Technology, University of Michigan

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9:30 - 10:30 The Evolution of User Generated Content

Dan Hunter- Professor of Law, and Acting Director, Institute for Information Law & Policy, New York Law School

• UGC 3.0: From Threat to Opportunity (Just Not Yours)"

   

David Card - VP & Principal Analyst, Forrester Research

• Consumer Adoption of Social Media & the Evolution of the Social Network"

   

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Robert B. Cohen- Cohen Communications Group

• "Business Adoption of Social Media & Virtual Worlds

   

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Moderator - David Stark, Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology & International Affairs, Columbia University

10:45 - 12:00 Understanding Evolving Online Behavior

John Horrigan- Associate Director of Research, Pew Internet and American Life Project

• "The Evolving Habits of Online Content Creators"
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Mainak Mazumdar- SVP, Measurement Science, Emerging Media, The Nielsen Company

• "Riding the Wave of Social Media"

   

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Eszter Hargittai- Professor of Communication Studies, Faculty Associate of the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University

• "The Skill Divide in Internet Use"

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Cliff Lampe- Professor, Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies and Media, Michigan State University

• "Patterns of Participation in User Generated Content Communities"

Moderator - W. Russell Neuman- Evans Professor of Media Technology, University of Michigan

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch and Keynote

Scott McDonald- SVP, Market Research, Conde Nast

• "User-Generated Content: Issues for 'Traditional' Media Companies"

1:30 - 3:00 Sustainable Business Models and Long Tails

Andres Hervas-Drane- Postdoctoral Fellow, Columbia Business School

• "User Generated Content and the Long Tail"

   

Peyman Faratin- Principal Scientist, Strands.com and MIT

• "Incentive Engineering in UGC applications: A Case Study of Prediction Markets"

Chris Dellarocas- Professor, Decision, Operations and Information Technologies, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland

• When Every Customer is a Potential Brand Ambassador"

Anindya Ghose- Professor of Information, Operations and Management Sciences, New York University

• "Combining Textmining with Econometrics: Monetization of User-Generated Content via Online Advertising"

Moderator - Raul Katz- Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School, Director of Business Strategy Research, CITI

3:15 - 4:30 Legal, Social & Political Implications

David Weinberger- Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University

• "The Overabundance of Order"

Len Downie- former Executive Editor, Washington Post

• "The Future of Journalism"

Greg Lastowka- Professor of Law, Rutgers University

• "Commerce in the Commons"

Stefaan Verhulst- Chief of Research, Markle Foundation

• "Implications of a New Mediating Ecology"

Moderator - Robert Atkinson- Professor of Communications, Internet & Media, Columbia Business School, Director of Policy Research and Special Projects, CITI

4:30 Concluding Discussion