Crowdsourcing can increase creativity and productivity while decreasing research expenses. In one of the articles it explains that istockphoto s a website where photographers would trade stock photography which was way cheaper than buying the stock photos from someone. Crowdsourcing can offer different ideas and work from many different people like istockphoto its collections from various different parties that is serviced all through the internet. In Istockphoto they include work from “amateur, photographers,homemakers, dancers, students, and engineers” and the images are sold for low prices of $1-$5. Crowdsourcing allows contributors to get their work out there and allows anyone who needs this information to access information for low prices.
User Generated content are websites like youtube, where producers are also consumers or at least there is a very blurry line between them. This is no longer a collection of peoples work in one, this is individual an example you tubers make videos of what they like as an individual. As oppose to crowdsourcing where people trade and sell common works. In one of the articles mentioned that many media sites are asking if they are really willing to pay for content when there are so many people willing to give their content for free. User generated content is potentially jeopardizing professional journalist.
