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What's the book?

• Alex3917 11y ago
  Participatory Culture in a Networked Era by Henrey Jenkins, Mizuko Ito, and Danah Boyd: http://www.amazon.com/Participatory-Culture-Networked-Era-Conversation/dp/0745660711/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1448843164&sr=8-1&keywords=participatory+culture+in+a+networked+era http://www.amazon.com/Participatory-Culture-Networked-Era-Co... It's actually pretty interesting so far. The premise is basically back in the 90s many/most early adopters of the Internet (including myself) thought it was going to bring all sorts of beneficial changes to society. This obviously hasn't entirely happened, so it's looking at the state of what's changed, what hasn't, why, what's likely to happen in the future, etc. And it's written as a conversation between the three authors on various questions, which is interesting because each has a slightly different research speciality -- henry is most famous for his work on participatory culture, mimi is most famous for her ethnography of japan, and danah probably most famous for her work on social software and subcultures/outgroups. A lot of the book is looking at community culture vs corporate culture vs internet culture, and specifically how the web got corporatized or whatever. It's also looking at youth use of social software, especially in the context of the U.S. where kids have very little in the way of autonomy, rights, or freedom to participate in public organizations. (This is where the video gaming stuff comes in.)