No matter what kind of opinion people have on Jenkins' argument about internet and collective intelligence, his study provides a different but exciting perspective from which we can examine and understand the internet culture better. The convergence culture is there, no matter it is the technological convergence or intellectual convergence, the line in between matters and people is blurred. It is another way to think about the fluid identity of people and the relationships in between different media technologies. The old and new technologies are combined, such as most newspapers have their own websites, the readers of the newspapers might are also the visitors of the according websites. But I didn't see, how Jenkins eveluates how much that the different media technologies are convergencing both horizontally and chronically? Are there the compraratively stable groups of people who are still the "loyal" users of certain media without paying attention to the new technology.
While Jenkins is celebrating the revolutionay and productive work of internet fans, how much did he know about the "new stereotypes" shaped by the internet fans at the same time, reinforced the circulation of certain media products? For example, like what John Dewey argued about democracy, conversation is always necessary and affective in promoting democracy. Does the exposure to numerous amount of information reinforce the oldness or reproduce the newness?
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
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