Convergence vs Remix: What are the views of the future of culture according to each?
CH 4: Quentin Tarantino’s Star Wars
1. What’s the main point of this chapter?
2. Why is it called that?
3. How does web innovation and especially consumer-generated content influence the mainstream film industry today?
4. How will it in the future?
CH 6: Photoshop for Democracy
1. Why was the Your Fired Video so popular?
2. Jenkins writes: “The new political culture—just like the new popular culture—reflects a pull and tug of these two media systems: one broadcast and commercial the other narrowcast and grassroots.” (211) What does he mean by this? How did these two come together in the Obama campaign?
3. On what grounds does Joe Trippi discount convergence and why does Jenkins disagree?
4. What is culture jamming?
5. Pierre Levy writes: “Until now we have only reappropriated speech in the service of revolutionary movements, crises, cures, exceptional acts of creation. What would normal, calm, established appropriation of speech be like?” What does Jenkins think?
6. How is the Daily show a form of resistance or of public engagement?
Conclusion
1. How does convergence encourage participation and collective intelligence?
2. Why does it matter?
3. On what grounds does Jenkins critique “critical pessimists.”
4. How is literacy different today than it was 15 years ago?
5. How will people learn skills so that they can fully participate?
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