March 08, 2007
From Participatatory Culture to Participatory Democracy (Part One)
Henry Jenkins
The following is my attempt to provide a written record of the remarks that I presented at the Beyond Broadcast conference that we hosted at MIT the other week. I would strongly recommend watching the webcast version of the talk to achieve the full effect since the talk depended very heavily on the visuals and I am not going to be able to reproduce very many of them here. You might also want to check out the interview I did for Thoughtcast in advance of the event. This post is intended, however, to provide links to all of the examples I presented during the talk.
Getting Too Close to Reality: Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide, my recent book, opens with the curious story of Bert and Bin Laden:
Dino Ignacio, a Filipino-American high school student created a Photoshop collage of Sesame Street's Bert interacting with terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden as part of a series of "Bert is Evil" images he posted on his homepage. Others depicted Bert as a Klansman, cavorting with Adolph Hitler, dressed as the Unabomber or having sex with Pamela Anderson. It was all in good fun. More >> [blogged by Henry Jenkins on Confessions of an Aca/Fan]
Posted by jo at March 8, 2007 12:26 PM
