The development of the idea of 'User Generated Content'' (UGC) in the first ten years of the 21st Century demands serious critical attention. Access All Areas will focus on mapping the use of the term and its historical development. UGC has different inflections in the media fields of television and journalism and is different again in the discourses of games and Web 2.0. In this light, this symposium represents a timely reflection on the normalisation of the idea of UGC and a genealogy of its development. The symposium is a Digital Cultures Research Centre and UWE event.

Access All Areas takes place on the 21st May 2010 from 9:30am and is located in Watershed Media Centre: Waterside 1 & 2.

This event is open to 30 participants at a cost of £20, with postgraduate researchers and concessions at a cost of £10.