Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century

by Henry Jenkins

Book Overview

Many teens today who use the Internet are actively involved in participatory cultures--joining online communities (Facebook, message boards, game clans), producing creative work in new forms (digital sampling, modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction), working in teams to complete tasks and develop new knowledge (as in Wikipedia), and shaping the flow of media (as in blogging or podcasting). A growing body of scholarship suggests potential benefits of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262513625
• ISBN13: 9780262513623
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 145 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher