ELI: What Wikipedia Can Teach Us About the New Media Literacies, Jenkins
Posted on January 28, 2008
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Mark and I are in San Antonio at the ELI Annual conference. The program is super exciting with sessions on Second Life, social networking, haptic devices, and more. First up, Henry Jenkin’s talk about Wikipedia. Here are my notes from the session:
- Wikipedia and other web 2.0 platforms are the equivalent of the rock n’ roll movement of previous generations
- Importance of balance between enthusiasm for new media and understanding the cultural complications of the changes we’re living in
- Importance of learning cultural and digital literacy and participation
- Traditional literacy is fundamental and then is augmented and expanded by new media literacy
- Participatory culture: low barriers to entry, support for sharing, informal mentorship, value for contributions, degree of social connection between participants
- Less hierarchy between levels of experience in participatory culture, negates importance of age difference and places the emphasis on skills and contributions
- New media literacies are focused on social/communal literacy skills
- Focus moving from media effects to media ethics
- New Media skills translate well offline as well as they do online
- Challenges:
- Participation gap: unequal access of youths to the opportunities, experiences, skills, and knowledge that will prepare them for full participation in the world of tomorrow
- Transparency problem: the challenges young people face in learning to see clearly the ways media shape our perceptions of the world
- Ethics Challenge: The breakdown of traditional forms of professional training and socialization which might prepare young people for their increasingly public roles as media makers and community participants
- How do we engage in the potentials of new media rather than shut the door on them?
- Collective intelligence, judgement, networking, negotiation: skills in wikipedia literacy
- Young people should overcome their excitement to learn to be cynical and Adults must learn to accept the possibilities of new media forms
- Wikipedia is something we DO, not something we consume. We participate in it, not just extract info
- The aura of the encyclopedia is undeserved.
- The wikipedia process is not to just collect knowledge but to encourage people to think about the process of knowledge making
- Wikiality is an important idea for information literacy
- Jumping from one topic to another via Wikipedia links to display how ideas, cultures, and subject areas are connected
**posting now due to lack of battery juice! I’ll post more complete notes later.
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