On Monday, danah boyd and I had a conversation in front of a packed room at South By Southwest in Austin about youth, participatory culture, the politics of fear, wikipedia, Second Life, YouTube, and a range of other topics which will be familiar to those of you who regularly read this blog. Since we are seeing an influx of first time readers about now, I figured I would provide a key to some of the blog posts which touch on issues that cropped up during the session — a kind of one stop shopping to the best of Henry Jenkins (or at least some of the better posts I’ve made since this blog launched last June.)
On YouTube and User-generated Content
YouTube and the Vaudeville Aesthetic
Taking the You Out of YouTube?
Astroturf, Humbugs and Lonely Girls
Oreos, “Wal-Mart Time” and User-Generated Advertising
On Second Life
The Great Jenkins/Sharky/Coleman Debate Pre Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Aftermath
Should I Cornrow My Beard? (About my appearance with Global Kids)
On New Media and Democracy
From Participatory Culture to Participatory Democracy Part One Part Two
National Politics in Game Worlds: The Case of China
On the Future of Education
on New Media Literacies
White Paper for MacArthur Initiative
on DOPA and the Politics of Fear
The Only Thing We Have to Fear…
MySpace and the Participation Gap
Joint Interview with danah boyd
on Fans and Intellectual Property
The Magic of Back Story: The Mainstreaming of Fan Culture
In Yoyogi Park (on fans and globalization)
Fan Fiction as Critical Commentary
Fan Activism in a Networked Culture
So What Happened to Star Wars Galaxies?
On Wikipedia and Collective Intelligence
Collective Intelligence vs. The Wisdom of Crowds
You should add the post “Experimenting with Brands in Second Life” as it provides a nicely objective introductory overview of Second Life.
I liveblogged your conversation with Danah on lj, here. It’s a mostly-full transcript of what both of you said. Thanks again to both of you — it was a terrific conversation on which to listen in.
I was really happy to see that you had a SXSW session, and you completely stole the show, in my opinion. Very helpful starting point for exploring a lot of your work, and applying it to my job (interactive marketing). Thanks.
Whoops! Looks like I mis-copied the url of the transcript of your presentation. Sorry about that.
The liveblogged presentation is here: http://kassrachel.livejournal.com/470109.html
I also liveblogged your presentation. I thought it was fantastic and we spoke for a few minutes after about how we should be teaching parents to interact with their online students. Here is my liveblog post: http://www.21apples.org/articles/2007/03/12/sxswi-convergence-culture-a-conversation-with-henry-jenkins