Henry Jenkins Aca-Fans Site
If you haven’t checked it out yet, you have to see Henry Jenkins’s site.
The post for this week is about his talk at South by Southwest and a lot of the issues surrounding participatory culture, community media, collective identities, collective intelligences, etc… questions that will help us with more guerilla media tactics.
Jenkins also gets at a lot of gender issues with digital technology and fandom. There are reasons why girls avoid certain virtual spaces, and reasons why they seek them out. I wonder what the technology issues with the boys are? What is ‘fear culture’ all about for young people and technology? Why are parents so scared about the their kids on the Web? Should they be?
What kind of fearless fan are you?
Ms. Coffman, our new blog on Third Parties is up at athirdpartyblog.wordpress.com
Talk about participatory culture, check this website out:
http://secondlife.com/
It is like an extreme version of The Sims video game. Kind of scaring but really intriguing.