Blog Post #16

Last Thursday we wrote a full 10 minute free-write about wiki writing, editing, and being edited.  Two of the words I integrated into my paper were: ‘information’ and ‘participate’.  ” A great thing about public editing is that pages can be greatly enhanced and added to and anyone can participate.”  “Not everyone is going to think the same way, like the same things, and want certain information.”  Henry  Jenkins also uses the word participation in this quote, “The circulation of media content–across different media systems, competing media economies, and national borders–depends heavily on consumers’ active participation.”  That directly relates to my quote.  Basically the circulation of media content heavily depends on the community and what they contribute to it.  Without people, specifically consumers, the distribution of media wouldn’t exist.  “Each of us constructs our own personal mythology from bits and fragments of information extracted from the media flow and transformed into resources through which we make sense of our everyday lives.”  Like what I said, Jenkins is also saying that information has a personal meaning that people construct around it.  The way we think revolves around the fragments of information we absorb throughout our lives.

Our group collectively participated today.  Everyone did a part and made a contribution to the wiki to continue the flow of information.  One person typed, and everyone else bombarded them with ideas and information.  We worked like a team.    

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~ by jonkruger on October 24, 2007.