In the short story, “How to find a village phone,” a women named Ivanna lost her phone in the back of a taxicab. After a while of not being able to find it, she bought a new phone. When she had the photos transferred from her old phone, she found pictures of someone else in photos she never took. On the photos was the email address of a women named Sasha. Evan, Ivanna’s fiancé, started emailing Sasha about the phone and getting it back from her. Sasha refused to give the phone back, stating her boyfriend had given it to her and that she was not going to give it back. After Sasha told Evan this, he starts to post about the phone and his situation on Myspace while also telling all his friends about it. Eventually his post got seen by a website called Digg and, in a few days, it went viral. People from all over were offering to help Evan get the phone back. After getting the police involved and the cooperation of the village community involved, Sasha was arrested for the theft of the phone and Evan got Ivanna her phone back. Of course, Evan and Ivanna dropped the charges and Sasha was released from police custody. This was all able to happen because a community came together to help these two people get their phone back.

The Three Video Comparison 

To start off this comparison of the three videos, I would like to point out that Henry Jenkins is in all three videos. One comparison that corresponds to all three videos is that Henry talks about the effects of technology within society. He also talked a lot about how technology can change people’s perspectives on things happening in the world. Another comparison that is in the videos is that Henry talks about how technology can be used cooperatively to change aspects of the world around us and that as a group, we can put whole knowledge together in a complex way. Another comparison Henry talks about is that technology has become a tool we use to better ourselves for the future. Henry also states that our decisions on media can help make technology better and help advance it and upgrade it for further use in the future. He also says that with the possession of technology, we have helped create collective intelligence through media for all over the world to see. With this collective intelligence, it can help in things such as school, jobs, and in life. The final comparison is that we are using technology to shape a better world for the future.