Exposing students' work to the Internet's collective intelligence
In his new book Convergence Culture, MIT's Henry Jenkins explores the cultural transformations caused by the collision of the old media with the new. The director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program argues that in order for students to become more conversant in this new culture of blogs, viral video and podcasts, they must circulate their writing and other work on the Internet so it can be shared with and evaluated by others.
