What are the key points/terms from Jenkins?
The key points from Jenkins are about the youth of each generation building social networks in the mediums of the radio, the internet etc. to impact and have a voice as youth. One example is of the bowling leagues of the 1950's. Bowling was the central hub of social life and networking. Nowadays games like World of Warcraft, Fifa connections, Farmville for example is a community that people interact on. A place of exchange does not always need to be rooted geographically. Protests in China are being conducted on the internet in space where they can protest. This is all great for civic engagement as Jenkins points out, but is scary times for journalism and the truth of information. Harry potters army is a good example of youth challenging the newspapers and the government of the time. Aaang Ain't white is another great example of how young people are recognizing the white washing of characters of other nationalities, and how hollywood continues to cast white characters. Another great one are people dressing up as the Navi, from James Cameron Avatar to represent oppression and genocide.
Key terms are ones such as Participatory Culture, which needs the attributes of 1.relatively low barriers for engagement 2. strong support for sharing creations with others. 3. informal mentor ship 4. members believe there contributions matter 5. Care about others opinions of self and work. Most importantly all must feel free to contribute, even if they don't continually, they must feel that when they are ready, what they contribute will be appropriately valued.
How do they (or do they) connect with the key points from Weinberger?
This does relate to weinberger because he states that classifications are political. The fact that many schools, businesses and those of the older generation want to keep facebook and myspace out of kids hands is harming their connection to a cultural phenomenon. Therefore the way many young adults networked at the bowling alley, many kids are finding there civic engagement via the internet and these social networking sites. The fact that we can have things like collective intelligence and the fact that it is not being embraced by schools, that are places of learning is odd. So many teachers do not let you cite sources on the internet, but as we progress i know the internet is going to be the main place for many people to go to obtain information for schooling, research, social, buying power etc.
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Did you watch the Jenkins lecture before class? I'm thinking you did (I know Brian did too, so you're not alone). In any case, fairly good summary of Jenkins (although a few of his key terms aren't quite teased out here, convergence culture, for example, that he spends a lot of time defining in the reading). I'm not quite sold on your connection to Weinberger here, it's a little thin. I would've been curious to hear a few more specifics.
ReplyDeleteSweet wrap up on Jenkins. I liked how you made the link on Jenkin's statement on how most, if not all, classifications are political. Personally, I feel that as we have advanced in this technological centered culture, classifications will get more blatantly political as time goes on.
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