Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Skyping with Henry Jenkins

Tomorrow in class we have been given the opportunity to have a skpye conference with Henry Jenkins the author of our textbook, Convergence Culture.
We have been relating his ideas on transmedia to our social media class and what it means to us. If you would like to see more on Henry Jenkins you can visit his blog.
In his book he talks about how fans use different medias to support what they love. In the chapter about Harry Potter he discusses how a 13 year old girl, after reading the first book, started her own newspaper, named after the paper in the book, The Daily Prophet. Other children write articles and she edits them. However, there can also be anti-fans, people who do not support the cause, but fight against it. Some people were outraged with the Harry Potter books and said that its ideals were those of the devils. However, they could not get the bigger picture and see how children were reading and enjoying it, they were also writing and improving their writing style and creativity.
I would like to ask Henry Jenkins about this topic. In the future, what role does he see fan-bases playing and how will it influence the medias?

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