Week 6.

August 8th, 2011

New Media, Digital Literacies and Popular Culture

Jenkins, H. 2002. Interactive Audiences?: The 'Collective Intelligence' of Media Fans" in Dan Harries (ed.), The New Media Book, (London: British Film Institute, 2002). [also in Fans, gamers, and bloggers]

Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars?: Digital Cinema, Media Convergence and
Participatory Culture," in David Thorburn and Henry Jenkins (eds.) Rethinking Media Change (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003).

Grigoriadis, Vanessa (2009, April 5) “Do You Own Facebook? Or Does Facebook Own You?”  New York Magazine http://nymag.com/news/features/55878/

Nussbaum, Emily (2009) “Say Everything” New York Magazine http://nymag.com/news/features/27341/

Keen, Andrew (2006, February 15) “Web 2.0” The Weekly Standard http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/714fjczq.asp


August 10th, 2011 Assignment 2 due**


Consumer Pedagogy and Disruption

Carducci, Vince. “Culture Jamming: A Sociological Perspective.” Journal of Consumer Culture 6.1 (2006): 116-138. [UTL] http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/111283

Harold, Christine. “Pranking Rhetoric: Culture Jamming as Media Activism.” Critical Studies in Media Communications 21.3 (September 2004): 189-211. [UTL]   

Sandlin, Jennifer. “Culture, Consumption and Adult Education: Refashioning Consumer Education for Adults as a Political Site Using a Cultural Studies Framework.” Adult Education Quarterly 55.3 (May 2005): 165-181. [UTL] http://simplelink.library.utoronto.ca/url.cfm/111285

Video: Culture Jam