Monday 30 April 2012


1. What are Henry Jenkins’ ideas about how the media landscape is changing?
The  old media system is dying and a new media system is being  born were participatory culture is taking over the companies with the power to give us the information is slowly giving the people the opportunity to cease control.

2. What is ‘convergence culture’?
convergence  culture is when every video image and story is available for us to see hear or read.It refers to media products that can be viewed across numerous platforms and channels now. The wikinomic idea that we all contribute to archive and create information rather than using an individual source.


3. How are Jenkins’ ideas similar to those of David Gauntlett and Michael Wesch?
fan art and fan videos are now more common. The people are using copyrighted material and reposting it as their own allowing us to view the products in a new to to improve the virtual sphere. His ideas also relate to Guantlett's idea that the media gods no longer have all the power as citizen journalism allows people to produce and distribute their own media.

4. How might we disagree with Jenkins’ utopian ideas about the media? (Answering this question may require some independent thought – be very afraid.)
 It can be seen as harming the companies who produce the big videos and films which we watch and the people are able to repost as their own with amnesty protecting them against copyright infringement.