Thursday, December 4, 2014

Blog #6

After listening to all the lectures from class and reading over the articles provided, I believe Henry Jenkins is saying convergence culture is a consumer's primary understanding and connection with of all the media sources that is now available to users. Jenkins believes that users are now much more involved because they now have a voice and the freedom to express their opinions which was not possible before. The information that users retrieve from the internet allows them to be more familiar with things such as brands and products which is making everyone much more "connected". Convergence culture has allowed us the ability to step into a new age of information because of the emergence of all the new media sources which is foundation of a convergence culture. Creative management is the process in which the users from the convergence culture expand upon ideas and thoughts that have already been established in an attempt to create broader views and ideas. Creative engagement is so important because it allows users the opportunities to see idea's and possibilities that otherwise they never would have been exposed to. The media plays the biggest role in creative engagement because we are able to take away information from other people as well as sharing our own innovative minds. And finally, the big question is how are participators engaging? In my personal opinion, participators are engaging by being much more involved on the internet. Whether that consists of having a Twitter account, having our own personal blog, or simply just posting things online for class assignments. The power to engage lies totally with every individual, and depending on how much the user cares to be engaged determines just how engaging they will actually be. But regardless of the level of engagement, all user of the internet are engaging in some shape or form. Thanks for reading and I would love to read your opinions and thoughts!

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