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Henry Jenkins' blog

I've been looking forward to the publication of Henry Jenkins' book Convergence Culture, having discovered his work while putting together the digital convergence track for SXSW 2006. Today Cory posted a pointer to Jenkins' new blog, Confessions of an Aca/Fan: The Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins, which anticipates the book's release later this summer. (The blog is ordered in forward chronological order, which made me dizzy.) He's posted snippets from the book that'll give you an idea why you'll want to buy and read it:

In a culture which some have described according to information overload, it is impossible for any one of us to hold all of the relevant pieces of information in our heads at the same time. Because there is more information out there on any given topic than we can store in our heads, there is an added incentive for us to talk amongst ourselves about the media we consume. This conversation creates buzz and accelerates the circulation of media content Consumption has become a collective process and that’s what I mean in this book by collective intelligence. None of us can know everything; each of us knows something; we can put the pieces together if we pool our resources and combine our skills.... Collective intelligence can be seen as an alternative source of media power. We are learning how to use that power through our day to day interactions within convergence culture. Right now, we are mostly using collective power through our recreational life, but it has implications at all levels of our culture. In this book, I will explore how the play of collective meaning-making within popular culture is starting to change the ways religion, education, law, politics, advertising, and even the military operate."

jon posted this at 11:44 AM
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