Based on experiences from a research and development project on user-generated

audiovisual content and broadband, our paper will present and discuss a number of

videos created by two very different groups of users - young people aged approx. 15

years and a group of people of 60 - 75 years old. The aim of the user involvement

project was to investigate the newest trends of user-generated content on sites such as

YouTube and BBC Video Nation and test possibilities of local or regional user

involvement in creating a platform for local, audiovisual user-generated content.