Convergence Culture & Resistance

Map of the Internet, circa 2003 (Source The Opte Project)

Required readings:

Jenkins, "Worship at the Altar of Convergence"

Marshall, "Forms of Interactivity: The Disappearance of the Audience"

Himanen, "From Netiquette to a Nethic"

(includes Linus Torvalds' Preface to The Hacker Ethic, "What Makes Hackers Tick?")
Wark, "The Hacker Manifesto"

The following are recommended readings that some of you might have already encountered in other classes. If you have not, I highly encourage you to read these as they provide a wealth of contextual information and integrate many of the concepts that we are at present discussing in class particularly in relation to the 'new' mediated environments that surround us.

Manovich, "Principles of New Media"

Jenkins, "Interactive Audiences? The Collective Intelligence of Media Fans"

Lessig, "Building Blocks: Commons and Layers" + "Commons on the Wires"

from The Future of Ideas