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A review by vanderwal
Participatory Culture in a Networked Era: A Conversation on Youth, Learning, Commerce, and Politics by Mizuko Ito, Henry Jenkins, Danah Boyd
5.0
Books for me are often conversations as a means of informing. They are a bit one-sided, but for me they work in this manner. But, for me they can also trigger things I've heard before, or conversations I have been a part of, or remind me of things I have known and do know presented in a purer state (not interwoven with other truths or realities or placed tightly beside them).
Participatory Culture took me straight back to conversations and deep dives to the mid-2000s. Resurfacing those mindsets, conversations, and discoveries have been difficult. They were difficult to resurface in conversation not because they were wrong or out of date, but many people dealing with the same domain took more popular and easy paths to understanding, which only truly frame partial actual understandings. Participatory Culture gives the honest good solidly founded framings and perspectives.
Participatory Culture is like sitting down to the middle of my favorite conversations, as I have had conversations with two of the authors and covered some of this ground. But, the whole of the book resurfaces the authors past writings and discussions a fresh, but also weave them into a current light. The underlying foundations still stand solid five, ten, and fifteen years after having been fortunate to have been able to have some of these conversations live.
Participatory Culture took me straight back to conversations and deep dives to the mid-2000s. Resurfacing those mindsets, conversations, and discoveries have been difficult. They were difficult to resurface in conversation not because they were wrong or out of date, but many people dealing with the same domain took more popular and easy paths to understanding, which only truly frame partial actual understandings. Participatory Culture gives the honest good solidly founded framings and perspectives.
Participatory Culture is like sitting down to the middle of my favorite conversations, as I have had conversations with two of the authors and covered some of this ground. But, the whole of the book resurfaces the authors past writings and discussions a fresh, but also weave them into a current light. The underlying foundations still stand solid five, ten, and fifteen years after having been fortunate to have been able to have some of these conversations live.