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A review by stateofmoregon
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide by Henry Jenkins
informative
medium-paced
4.25
Chapter 6 made me genuinely lose it. Bestie Jenkins was so close on so many things, how tf do you write a chapter in 2004 about politics, democracy, and digital technology and the FIRST SENTENCE TALKS ABOUT DONALD TRUMP...also the chapter was so optimistic, I wish I felt that way.
Anyway, I literally HAD to read this to write my MA thesis (because istg you can't write about YouTube and not cite our friend Henry), and I got a lot of ideas from it, but it's wild how distant the reality in this book seems from the present. The frameworks here are strong and will be useful, but it's wild how quickly the case studies here became a relic.
Also leaves me with many questions about how to pair Convergence Culture with theories of Remediation...mostly because there's a chapter in The YouTube Reader (also a relic) where Grusin is all like "Convergence and remediation are basically the same except Jenkins is totally wrong about YouTube"
Anyway, I literally HAD to read this to write my MA thesis (because istg you can't write about YouTube and not cite our friend Henry), and I got a lot of ideas from it, but it's wild how distant the reality in this book seems from the present. The frameworks here are strong and will be useful, but it's wild how quickly the case studies here became a relic.
Also leaves me with many questions about how to pair Convergence Culture with theories of Remediation...mostly because there's a chapter in The YouTube Reader (also a relic) where Grusin is all like "Convergence and remediation are basically the same except Jenkins is totally wrong about YouTube"