More "C"

Curious about that last statement, I tried the search "Generation C + China"...lead me to this page at World Editor's Forum.

Can anyone be a journalist now?

Generation C

Well, although I have not been actively posting to CPH127 at this point I have been regularly checking things out. I find "relocation headspace" for the present at least is not compatible with "content creation headspace".

However this morning a post about co-creation by the prolific Hans Henrik H. Heming caught my eye and lead me to discover this. Although I have not pursued any heavy duty "trend watching" for some time as a designer it is clearly something that I have taken a lot of notice of over the years.

So Generation C - what's it about?

No, this is not about a new niche generation of youngsters born between March 12, 1988 and April 24, 1993; the C stands for CONTENT, and anyone with even a tiny amount of creative talent can (and probably will) be part of this not-so-exclusive trend.

So what is it all about? The GENERATION C phenomenon captures the an avalanche of consumer generated 'content' that is building on the Web, adding tera-peta bytes of new text, images, audio and video on an ongoing basis.

The two main drivers fuelling this trend? (1) The creative urges each consumer undeniably possesses. We're all artists, but until now we neither had the guts nor the means to go all out. (2) The manufacturers of content-creating tools, who relentlessly push us to unleash that creativity, using -- of course -- their ever cheaper, ever more powerful gadgets and gizmos. Instead of asking consumers to watch, to listen, to play, to passively consume, the race is on to get them to create, to produce, and to participate.

Interesting huh? Read on...

I keep thinking about what happens when billions of Chinese kids really start creating their own content...that will be different!