Who are they?

-American media scholar

-Currently professor at communication, journalism and cinematic Arts.

-Author

What have they done?

-Research explores boundary between text and reader, growth of fan culture

-Involved in project New Media Literacy.

-Research on how individuals in contemporary culture themselves tap into and combine different media sources.

-Convergence culture, theory described as the merging of traditional and new media.

In What way might this relate to internet, digital media, and networked media.

-Research in social media, video games etc. modern day networking

-Project new media

-Very similar to our key readings

-Project new media literacy, same ideals as networked in that we should learn and apply ideologies and theories rather than practical knowledge

Ideas

-To learn the core social skills that we need in the new media landscape.

-‘Literacies’ if we can learn it without computers they can be applied to everything else

-Instead of replacing the old media, it is more like the new and old media intersect in a more complex play. the idea behind it is the same.

-How to use tech? instead of assuming we know how.