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Camilla Elliott

Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture - The MIT Press - 5 views

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shared by Camilla Elliott on 15 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Camilla Elliott on 15 Aug 10
     
    An occasional paper on digital media and learning. Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century. Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Aaron Davis

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Twitter technology Participatory Culture

shared by Aaron Davis on 25 Oct 14 - No Cached
  • “The Death of Twitter” is Not About Twitter
  • Twitter is, as my research continues to show, a path to voice. At the same time, Twitter is also a free soapbox for all kinds of shitty and hateful statements that minimize or reinforce marginalization, as any woman or person of colour who’s dared to speak openly about the raw deal of power relations in society will likely attest
  • The rot we’re seeing in Twitter is the rot of participatory media devolved into competitive spheres where the collective “we” treats conversational contributions as fixed print-like identity claims
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  • This doesn’t mean I’m leaving Twitter. I’m not leaving Twitter. If this post is a fruit fly signalling rot, it is likewise the testament of a life dependent on the decaying platform for its sustenance. The fruit is still sweet, around the rotten bits. And there is no other fruit in the basket that will do so well.
  • Aaron Davis on 25 Oct 14
     
    Interesting discussion of Twitter by Bonnie Stewart
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