danhf 's review for:

Participatory Culture in a Networked Era: A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics by Mizuko Ito, Henry Jenkins, Danah Boyd

4.0

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It's a briskly paced and compulsively readable discussion between the three authors, edited into an edifying and wide-ranging reflection on ways of approaching, understanding, and responding to participatory culture. I found the sections on commercial culture and activism the most rewarding, and while the format yields less actual debate than I had hoped for (Ito, boyd, and Jenkins mostly seem to agree with each other), the dialogic form makes a comfortable fit for the topics under discussion.