Where old and new media collide, henry jenkins, a major figure in the study of fan culture, continues and expands his work on the fan and blog cultures that exists in digital social networks. Access to this participatory culture functions as a new form of the hidden curriculum,shaping which youth will succeed and which will be left behind as they enter school and the workplace. A take from chapter 4 of henry jenkins convergence. The consumption of cultural contents takes place within a social context. The way in which we find ourselves affected by different mediums is leading us towards a. In the end, though, and even if i dont entirely share jenkins enthusiasm toward the brave new world he describes, convergence culture is a throughly researched and very readable guide to that world. Welcome to convergence culture, where old and new media collide, where grassroots and corporate media intersect, where the power of the media producer and the power of the media consumer interact in unpredictable ways. He chronicles the struggles of lucasfilm to determine its stance on fan adaptation and participation within the culture of its established intellectual property. Cultural differences, convergence, and crossvergence as. My brief comments here have really only scratched its surface.
Henry jenkins is accepted by media academics to be the father of the term with his book convergence culture. From participatatory culture to participatory democracy part one march 05, 2007 henry jenkins. A take from chapter 4 of henry jenkins convergence culture. Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by the folk. From participatatory culture to participatory democracy. M p 3 files, chat w i t h friends, wordprocess a paper, and respond to email, shifting rapidly.
On all sides and at every level, the term participation has emerged as a governing concept, albeit one surrounded by conflicting expectations. Welcome to convergence culture june 19, 2006 henry jenkins. Migratory behavior of media audiences who actively seek out media entertainment and media experiences. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read convergence culture. Henry jenkins, one of americas most respected media analysts, delves beneath the new media hype to uncover the important cultural transformations that are taking place. The fresh research and radical insights in convergence culture deserve a wide and thoughtful readership.
Jenkins offers numerous insights on how technology and media professionals can forge better relationships with their customers. The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. How fans of popular culture and literature write their own fan fiction and the copywright laws are challenged. These distinctions are far more important than the often asked question of how many different media must be involved in order for something to become transmedia. Instead, convergence represents a cultural shift as consumers.
Henry jenkins provides a fascinating account of how new media intersects old media and engages the imagination of fans in more and more powerful ways. And now, you pitch a world because a world can support multiple characters and multiple stories across multiple media. Jenkins begins by discussing the atomfilms contests that. And last but hardly least, i want to thank henry jenkins iv, who has. I thought i knew twentyfirst century pop media until i read henry jenkins. Jenkinss concept of convergence culture as a point of departure, the individual. But world building also depends on cultural geography our sense of the peoples, their norms and. Jenkins takes pains to prove that the notion of convergence culture is not primarily a technological revolution.
He has researched and written about literature, film and media studies, gender and cultural studies for the last twenty years. Jenkins discusses the current convergence culture that media is a part of. Henry jenkins convergence culture where old and new media collide. We take pride in the editorial quality and look and feel of our printed magazine, and we believe the convergence website convergence. Jenkins insights are gripping and his prose is surprisingly entertaining and lucid for a book that is, at its core, intellectually rigorous. Educators, media specialists, policy makers and parents will find convergence culture both lively and. Jenkins convergence culture promises us a journey to see how new and old media intersect, where grassroots and corporate media collide, where the power of media producer and the power of the consumer interact. Jenkins, henry published by nyu press for additional information about this book. Where old and new media collide paperback sep 1 2008. Zines and the politics of alternative culture and the cultural resistance reader, work that has offered a range of models for how popular culture can be deployed for democratic. Convergence culture reconsidered universitatsverlag gottingen. Web, listen to and download mp3 files, chat with friends, word process a paper. Where old and new media collide by henry jenkins in djvu, fb3, txt download ebook.
Convergence culture provides a view that looks at the restless ocean and tracks the currents rather than just looking at the individual rocks on the beach. The website also lets us keep the content currentas news happens in. Convergence culture is the future, but it is taking shape now. Welcome to convergence culture henry jenkins henry jenkins is director of the comparative media studies program at mit. Henry jenkins the cultural logic of media convergence, henry jenkins was extremely pro convergence wanting media to break out into multiple genres rather than standing strong as very one dimensional genre e. Convergence culture henry jenkins, mark deuze, 2008. In december 2004, a hotly anticipated bollywood film, rok sako to rok lo 2004, was screened in its entirety to movie buffs in delhi, bangalore, hyderabad, mumbai, and other parts of india through edgeenabled mobile phones with live video streaming facility. In this ecosystem it is anachronistic stopping the circulation of cultural contents, as well as stopping the free circulation of people, goods, and services. Winner of the 2007 society for cinema and media studies katherine singer kovacs book award2007 choice outstanding academic titlea classic study on the dynamic between an individual and different media channels convergence culture maps a new territory. Jenkins is an astute observer of media culture and his insights are spoton. In this book, jenkins introduces the reader to the ways in which these cultures converge in corporate, religious. How the media consumers havs become producers, and consume on their own terms. New york university press fans bloggers and gamers.
Convergence culture is in many ways the culmination of the past eight years of my life, an outgrowth of m buily effort ud p mits tos. Where old and new media collide paperback 1 sep 2008. Henry jenkins iii born june 4, 1958 is an american media scholar and provost professor of communication, journalism, and cinematic arts, a joint professorship at the. Henry jenkins iii born june 4, 1958 is an american media scholar and provost professor of. Convergence is a word that manages to describe technological, industrial, cultural, and social changes, depending on whos speaking and. With a view to capturing these social and cultural implications of convergence culture, jenkins further introduces the idea of a participatory culture. Confronting the challenges of participatory culture. Culture of democracy with david thorburn, in henry jenkins and. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws.
As described in this book, convergence culture arises from digital era. Bring on the monolithic block of eyeballs bruce sterling. We are entering an era where media will be everywhere, and we will use all kinds of media in relation to one another. Delivery technologies are the get replaced by improved technologies. Cultural convergence jenkins describes cultural convergence as an explosion of new forms of creativity at the intersections of various media technologies, industries and consumers. Convergence culture is a theory which recognizes changing relationships and experiences with new media.
The advertisement takes for granted what cultural studies researchers struggled to establish throughout the 1980s and 1990sthat audi. This is convergent culture, in which the media that represent cultural practices interact with existing technologies instead of creating a new medium that serve only one or all functions. Instead, convergence represents a cultural shift as consumers are. Convergence talk another snapshot of convergence culture at work. Web, listen to and download mp3 files, chat with friends, wordprocess a paper. It explores the flow of content distributed across various intersections of media, industries and audiences, presenting a back and forth power. Spreadable media is the latest book by henry jenkins.
Contents want to be diffused, spread, and streamed. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is its too easy. Media is constantly changing, but not replacing old media. Transmedia refers to the dispersal of those same elements across multiple media platforms. He believes that media will never exist in one form and that through the development of. Henry jenkins explaining what is media convergence. If you have access to a journal via a society or association membership, please browse to your society journal, select an article to view, and follow the instructions in this box. How people become editors of online magazines before the age of 14. Slashdot jenkins tries to bring clarity to cultural changes that are melting and morphing into. Access to society journal content varies across our titles. By this, jenkins means that usergenerated sites like blogs, youtube, tumblr, and wikipedia have made visible a set of cultural practices and logics that had been taking root within fandom over the past hundredplus years, expanding their cultural influence by broadening and diversifying participation explains jenkins on his blog. Many also recognized that the skills jenkins outlines as necessary for full participation in convergence media culture such as the pooling of knowledge in collaborative enterprises were better developed in the daily prophet than.
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