Speed Read - Convergence Culture: Where old and new media collide

The article summarises "Convergence Culture", a book by Harry Jenkins, a media academic with a special interest in fan and popular culture.

Speed Read - Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide 

Henry Jenkins, New York University Press, 2006 (view on Amazon)

Henry Jenkins is founder-director of the comparative media studies programme at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology which has spawned a number of initiatives in digital media, media literacy and fan communities. His works include "Fans, Bloggers and Gamers", and "The Wow Climax: Tracing the emotional impact of popular culture". He maintains a blog and his long-term interest in the impact of fan cultures - on and offline in the forms of reality television, movie studios and...

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