Gauntlett and Jenkins - Thursday's lesson and independent study

FIRST WATCH THIS: David Gauntlett.

If it doesn't work, go directly there: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNqgXbI1_o8

And this even better one!

Now read this:
Gauntlett interviewed by Henry Jenkins (from Jenkins' blog). Scan to find the relevant bits but look closely at part 3!

Studying Creativity in the Age of Web 2.0: An Interview with David Gauntlett (Part 1)

Studying Creativity in the Age of Web 2.0: An interview with David Gauntlett (Part Two)

Studying Creativity in the Age of Web 2.0: An interview with David Gauntlett (Part Three)

Moving on to Henry Jenkins, have a look at this:
Jenkins' post from his blog, Confessions of an Aca-Fan

Particularly watch this video!!!



And if you can this one:


Henry Jenkins is in London talking about his new book, Spreadable Media, and much more! He was interviewed by David Gauntlett on Tuesday night. Search #digitaltrans on Twitter for nuggets from the talk.
Someone has helpfully provided a rough transcript of what was said. You can read it here:

Henry Jenkins' talk

And here are poor videos of that talk.


Link to the Lost Zombies Project website
And here someone explains the project:




Here is a link to an article about the Palestinian protestors who dressed up as Avatar characters

Here is a link to the Harry Potter Alliance website that Jenkins mentions.