MULTIMODALITET

Participatory culture exists/is found in all the different types of social media. The way we use Instagram, Facebook, videosystems like Youtube or Vimeo is also a vital part of deltagarkultur (userculture?). The people who use social media are often called consumers of social media. The consumer can write or publish something on the Internet for free. User can also start debates, publish their own videos and films, tell about their love life, start up a business and so on. The lines between private and public are blurred. Also the lines of professional and private user/any user are changing.

 

You could argue that in this time and age learning in school is overly influenced by a flood of media. In Jenkins´s video about participatory culture he talks about a study which argues that kids learn more after school than during the school day. They make for example their own tutorial videos about something that interest them (as an example he gives skating video. Another inspiring example was in the book Konvergenskultur about a 14-year old editor of an online magazine about Harry Potter). This I think is brilliant because the learning happens from the students standpoint, understanding and motivation. You could say that the school system is not catching up with all the technological development. At the same time, I think, the young should be allowed to develop in their own time. If teaching incorporates too many modes at the same time it can become too hard for the brains. It is an important issue to be aware of.

 

Några exemplar.

fan community, fan fiction