| Henry Jenkins on YouTube |
Nine Propositions Toward a Cultural Theory of YouTube 1.hybrid of commercial, amateur, nonprofit, governmental, educational, and activist content co-exists and interacts in ever more complex ways. 2. meeting points and shared visions - the ambiguity of "you" 3. amateur curators re-presenting commercial content 4. relationship to other social networking sites (is this the right word? What is a definition of a social network?) 5. citizen-journalists 6. a popular political culture (but not necessarily a progressive one) 7.debates between gift economy and commodity culture 8. social skills 9. underrepresented groups Who is Henry Jenkins? What does he believe about collective intelligence, participatory culture, transmedia narratives, and the "black box fallacy"? Why does he say fans are "textual poachers" . . . in a good way? Why is YouTube like vaudeville? Some examples More Jenkins: Critiques of Jenkins from Alexandra Juhasz Preparing for James Kotecki - Upstairs in AIRB 3030 Washington Post article about Kotecki Obama girl interview
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