Week 07 – web critiques of the Jenkins’s article Web 2.0

            Henry Jenkins currently a Provost professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts, he is also an American media scholar. He had published several books, including Convergence Culture: Where old and New media collide, Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture and What made Pistachio Nuts? : Early Sound Comedy and the Vaudeville Aesthetic. Professor Jenkins’ researches majorly focus on the boundary between text and reader, the growth of fan cultures and world-making, “the process of designing a fictional universe that will sustain franchise development, one that is sufficiently detailed to enable many different stories to emerge but coherent enough so that each story feels like it fits with the others” (Jenkins, 2006)

            The article is written by Henry Jenkins along with Joshua Green, who is a post-doc in the CMS program, who was spearheading the Convergence culture consortium. In Jenkins’s blog, he briefly talked about the working experience Joshua, his colleagues and Joshua’s personal experience. Addition to that, he mentioned: “ Joshua Green is completing a book manuscript about Youtube with Jean Burgess” (Jenkins, 2008)

            The main argument of this article is the real meanings of the Web 2.0, along with that, Jenkins also talked about the relationship between the consumers and the producers’ relationships on the web 2.0. Web 2.0 represents a reorganization of the relations between producers and their audiences in a maturing internet market, as well as a set of approaches adopted by companies seeking to harness mass creativity, collectivism, and peer production” (Jenkins, 2013). Toward the end of the article, Jenkins also established the idea where he expects the Web 2.0 to evolve into, which generalized the “user-generated goods” rather than social “goods”. In such way the communication and interactions are based on the products created by the users, which solve the major copyright problem generated by Web 2.0.

My main question toward his expectation to the new generation of the Web is whether or not this is going to solve the problems of the moral economy. The initial content would be restricted to a closed group and the volume of the content might be restricted as well. There will definitely be more problems raised when the new Web system developed for a period of time.

Bibliography

Jenkins, Henry Convergence Culture: Where old and new media collide. New York University Press, 2006

Jenkins, Henry; Blog post, March 13 2008

Jenkins, Henry et al., “Were web 2.0 went wrong,” Spreadable media (2013)