Currently reading: Convergence Culture
April 3, 2007
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
some reading notes
p.4 cites Pierre Levy – collective intelligence: nobody knows everything, each person knows something, we can pool resources, combine knowledge & skills = alternative source of media power
Ch. 1 – Survivor spoiling, an example of collective intelligence in action
collective intelligence as social process, dynamic, participatory (p. 54) contrasts to expert paradigm
“popular epistemology” – group discusses how we know
Ch. 2 – American Idol, “affective economics” – examines emotional forces underlying consumption (from industry perspective)
p84 gossip – reality television provides people shared in common for online conversation, “a steady stream of ethical dramas”
