Jenkins: the last few chapters

This post is just to help organize class discussion and some additional stuff I wanted to show you.



Here is more fan-driven cultural production.

You can watch the whole movie on Hulu.

What are affinity space and can they be replicated or facilitated in a traditional educational environment? Why or Why not?




Mike Wesch is trying to do just that.

What is the nature of the challenges emergent participatory culture Jenkins describes pose to dominant cultural and legal structures?

Can Fan fiction/participatory production be used as a powerful tool to re-create media representations? (for example the Buffy/ remix we watched)

How does fair use fit in?

Codes of Best Practices

"Pierre Levy describes a world where grassroots communication is not a momentary disruption of the corporate signal, but the routine way the system operates." (226)

What evidence do we have that this is or is not occurring?

Can Fan fiction/participatory production be used as a powerful tool to re-create media representations? (For example the Buffy/Twilight remix we watched.)