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Confronting the challenges of participatory culture: Media education for the 21st century
- Author
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Henry Jenkins, Katie Clinton, Ravi Purushotma, Alice J. Robison, Margaret Weigel
- Year
- 2009
- Publisher
- The MacArthur Foundation
- DOI/Link
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- Abstract
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A central goal of this report is to shift the focus of the conversation about the digital divide
from questions of technological access to those of opportunities to participate and to develop
the cultural competencies and social skills needed for full involvement. Schools as institutions
have been slow to react to the emergence of this new participatory culture; the greatest oppor
tunity for change is currently found in afterschool programs and informal learning communi
ties. Schools and afterschool programs must devote more attention to fostering what we call
the new media literacies: a set of cultural competencies and social skills that young people need
in the new media landscape. Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of indi
vidual expression to community involvement.The new literacies almost all involve social skills
developed through collaboration and networking.These skills build on the foundation of tradi
tional literacy, research skills, technical skills, and critical analysis skills taught in the classroom. - Keywords
- Media Literacy
- Tags
- Audience studies
- PGDMIL Course
- C03 – Audiences and Representation
- PGDMIL Block
- C03-B2: Digital Civic Engagement
- Has Part
- C03-U07: Participatory Cultures and Civic Media
- Corpus Status
- Pending Review