Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture

Author: Henry Jenkins
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Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B0030DFWZM

Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning)

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-- joining online communities (Facebook, message boards, game clans), producing creative work in new
forms (digital sampling, modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction), working in teams to complete tasks
and develop new knowledge (as in Wikipedia), and shaping the flow of media (as in blogging or
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