Jenkins.+Convergence+Culture

= Jenkins, Henry. Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide = = Introduction and Chapter One =

Social Sciences. New York: New York UP, 2006. 1-308. Print.

**Abstract**
No abstract

**Arguments**
Jenkins does not describe 'convergence' as it is typically described. Instead he argues The Black Box Fallacy- that old media never dies, and instead it is the tools that die as new ones are created. The medium's content may shift, audience may change, but once a medium establishes itself to satisfy a human demand, it will continue to function. He also argues that convergence occurs when people take media into their own hands and into their own lives as lovers, mommys, or teachers, etc.

Chapter one focuses on //Survivor// spoilers- or people who put knowledge and effort into finding out series' secrets before it airs to the public. 'Knowledge communities' form around common interest. Jenkins believes that mapping out how these communities work can help us to understand media consumption. His focus is "on the process and ethics of shared problem-solving in an online community." Interested in how the community acts to a shift of normalcy in processing and evaluating information.

**Key Passages**
"Yet, history teaches us that old media never die- and they don't even necessarily fade away. What dies are simply the tools we use to access media content- the 8-track, the Beta tape" (13).

"[Convergence] also occurs when people take media in their own hands...Our lives, relationships, memories, fantasies, desires also flow across media channels" (17).

"//Survivor// is television for the Internet age- designed to be discussed, dissected, debated, predicted, and critiqued" (25).

"New forms of community are emerging, however: these new communities are defined through voluntary, temporary, and tactical affiliations, reaffirmed through common intellectual enterprises and emotional investments" (27).

**Selected Works Cited**
[|Convergence Culture]