convergence theory

danah boyd interviewed her mentor Henry Jenkins in a panel entitled Convergence Culture: A Conversation with Henry Jenkins with the adoration of one who truly had learned a lot in her studies with him and was adept at maintaining the flow of questioning even after one of his incredibly long pronouncements on fandom, convergence culture, or the transformation of pop culture over the last twenty years. jenkins now finds himself at the vanguard of an intellectual movement studying the transformation of what was fringe culture into the mainstream and it’s democratic potential for positive social change. While not being convinced that the investments in new media do not bring their perils, he nevertheless calls for the continuos participation of fans (and thus users) in the build-up of the greatest parts of the web and their nascent potential for transformative action in the real world (although where this has yet occurred he didn’t state).