Sunday, May 1, 2011

blog# 6

There are 3 keypoints from Jenkins

#1: Convrgence: This is when different form of media converge, overlap, or cooperate with one another. It is a natyral evolution of information that follows the advances in technology. This can be seen with the increased shift from analog to digital format, such as with books. Today, electronic books are becoming more prevalent thanks to e-readers and i-pads. And before that audio books were available to the consumer, spreading the influence of literature from paper, to audio and eventually digital. This ties into Weinberger's 3rd order, which essentialy discribes digital media in which there is a lack of physical analogs for information.


#2: Collective Intelligence: This is when many contribute towards a goal, each adding a valuable portion that creates something greater than what an individual could do on their own, similar ti Weinberger's idea of croudsourcing. An example of this wold be Wikipedia, in which many contribute bits of info of from a variety of sources. In Jenkin's view, no one individual knows everything, so by harnessing the knowledge of a large group of people, more intelligence can be contributed, with a greater likelihood of accuracy.


#3: Participatory Culture: IT is basically a culture in which individual can contribute forms of media instead of just consuming the products of companies and corporations. The advances of technology has allowed for nearly any with a computer to create video, music, images, web pages, stories, and so on while reaching a large number of people. This directly leads to crowd sourcing and collective intelligence.

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