WEEK 5

9/23/26

CULTURE OF CONVERGENCE

Internet is Social

Tim Berners Lee: created the www (text messages)

• medium exists to be social

• the web doesn’t just connect machines, it connects people

How is it social??

• protection ability

• helps in decision making process

  • more info, better decision

• relationship building, fostering community online

Henry Jenkins: CONVERGENCE CULTURE

• how media production and consumption has changed with the relevance of

  • participatory culture

    • interacting with media

  • collective intelligence

    • convergence culture can disseminate info more easily to share info with each other

  • technological environments

• cognitive surplus

  • the gap: creation is not good or bad

    • willing to correct errors

  • communal vs civic value

    • fanfiction: communal

    • guides and mediators, aka news and journalism: civic

  • breaking the culture

• wiki, reddit, linux

• is this good for media??

  • some exercise of autonomy and control of information