This document discusses user-generated communication on social networks. It argues that user-generated messages must resonate at a personal level in order to spread effectively. It also states that user communication should balance truth and persuasion by allowing users to share information in an articulate manner. Finally, it suggests that user-generated content has value when it creates an ongoing story with diverse viewpoints, as this helps users reify their human experiences.

1. Resonate Activating User-Generated Communication Exploring the dynamic relationships between user and content Reverberate Maria E. Hayhow University of Cincinnati Undergraduate Communication Research ‘11 Reify

2. Message Social networks have been the catalysts to which individuals can grasp information as it relates to them, on an approachable level. Both digital native and foreigners are being approached with new technologies at an incessant and ongoing rate. The ability to resonate information with personal experience through social networks enables a sense of awareness and closer proximity.

3. User generated messages must maintain context & content that Resonates at a Personal Level

4. Aristotle Modes of Persuasion

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6. Tension Point Tension Point - Aristotle Opportunity Gap

8. Why be a user? Why generate content? Joining the conversation. The driving duty of users is to connect through the content they create, observe, and interact with. The ability to balance both truth and persuasion, in an articulate argument, will allow users to be seen as informational ambassadors.

9. Communication Communication models have been mimicked to create strong user generated platforms. User generated communication occurring between these users should reflect a balance of both truth and persuasion. Reverberating public interest and persuasion involves the participation of diverse parties co-constructing both news and information.

10. User-generated communication relies on users aptitudes to share and Reverberate throughout User Audience

11. Model for Persuasion+ Truth

12. Feminine Models of communication favor the exchange of news and conversation surrounding it. Various blog oriented communication technologies hint at this. Masculine Models of communication favor the transfer of information, rather than the exchange of it. These transfers can be seen throughout various open forum sites.

13. What is valuable User-generated content/communication? The value of user-generated content in its efforts to obtain quality amidst a landscape of ubiquitous information. User generated communication that creates an ongoing story, co-constructed with divergent viewpoints, is one way of achieving value.

14. Meaning Maslow’s hierarchy of needs peaks at self actualization and experiences. Seeing the value mass communication models such as social networks hold allows for individuals to reify their identity with people, places, events, and the world as they know it.

15. User generated communication circulates because of users drive to Reify Human Experience

18. In a user generated population who is held responsible? In being a user, generating content, one is held accountable as both a resource and source. The abundance of content calls for the curation and cultivation of its validity. Harnessing the potential of current user content focuses on aligning content with credibility and resources with validated perspectives.

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