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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
SXSW Opening Remarks Sketch
This is too good not to share--a "live drawn" sketch of Henry Jenkins' and Steven Johnson's opening remarks at SXSW this year. For more, visit Jenkin's blog.
Monday, March 12, 2007
SXSW: Henry Jenkins
Henry Jenkins is the author of “Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide,” and a professor of at MIT. Here are some key points from his talk:
On copyright … Hollywood has already lost control and needs to “get over the moment.” The issue we all need to confront now is how to fight back in a world that is economically unequal. Hollywood may not have control, but they do have lawyers.
On participation … We may have come far in bridging the digital divide, but we now have a participation gap, meaning that not everyone gets to participate equally. Specifically, there is a move to stop young people from participating online. Jenkins says this stems from fear and that we need to choose to be led by knowledge instead.
On Wikipedia … Is knowledge a product or knowledge a process? Wikipedia is a “monument to participatory culture,” it is interesting because you can see how those entries are developed among people. “If we can figure out those ethics about how Wikipedia works … we can begin to understand how we can create a shared information space.”
On media literacy … We have to stop getting mad about being faked out. Instead we need to tech people how to weigh representations. What skills do we all need to know to individually or collectively process things like this?
On SecondLife … SeconLife is a new participatory culture where we can try on new identities, much like carnivals in Medieval times. Think of it as a way of experimenting with social relations that we can carry back into the real world and that has an impact on the real world.
On isolation … We’re used to being isolated in suburbs and now we are moving back into a collaborative space. The problem is, we don't know how to live here. How do we figure out how to collaborate?
Read more at his blog: http://www.henryjenkins.org/
On copyright … Hollywood has already lost control and needs to “get over the moment.” The issue we all need to confront now is how to fight back in a world that is economically unequal. Hollywood may not have control, but they do have lawyers.
On participation … We may have come far in bridging the digital divide, but we now have a participation gap, meaning that not everyone gets to participate equally. Specifically, there is a move to stop young people from participating online. Jenkins says this stems from fear and that we need to choose to be led by knowledge instead.
On Wikipedia … Is knowledge a product or knowledge a process? Wikipedia is a “monument to participatory culture,” it is interesting because you can see how those entries are developed among people. “If we can figure out those ethics about how Wikipedia works … we can begin to understand how we can create a shared information space.”
On media literacy … We have to stop getting mad about being faked out. Instead we need to tech people how to weigh representations. What skills do we all need to know to individually or collectively process things like this?
On SecondLife … SeconLife is a new participatory culture where we can try on new identities, much like carnivals in Medieval times. Think of it as a way of experimenting with social relations that we can carry back into the real world and that has an impact on the real world.
On isolation … We’re used to being isolated in suburbs and now we are moving back into a collaborative space. The problem is, we don't know how to live here. How do we figure out how to collaborate?
Read more at his blog: http://www.henryjenkins.org/
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