Video Links: Transmedia, Henry Jenkins Interview, and The influence of participatory culture on education
All three of these videos stars Henry Jenkins, who is a professor who speaks about the different ways that people can use the boom of social media to their advantage. Now, all three of these videos were made towards the beginning of the social media boom, all coming out around when Barack Obama first became president, but the information is still true to this day, maybe becoming even more true today because of how important social media has become to the community.
Jenkins claims in the interview that because it is becoming easier for teenagers, which is a group of people that companies look at for guidance in most cases, to express the different things that they want in the world. It also makes it easier for information to get around faster, and is making the world more knowledgeable as well.
Jenkins brings up in multiple videos on how the spread of social media helped Barack Obama win the election in 2008 because of how much he leaned into the boom of social media. He also brings up how since it is easier to post things like videos on the internet, people have become more informed about the world around them since now anyone can film something on their phone and upload it minutes later on social media.
These things are a lot more common today as social media and technology has evolved to a point where the reach people have is greater and the time it takes to post things has decreased meaning that the amount of information people have on different things have skyrocketed. Jenkins claims in the interview I posted that it is because of this wide amount of information being shared today which is why it is now important for teachers to guide their young students on how to be able to find reliable information on the internet, something that is easier said than done because of the fact that some teachers weren’t raised with technology at their fingertips at all times.
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