Convergence Culture and the Legacy of Feminist Cultural Studies

Driscoll, Catherine; Gregg, Melissa

doi:10.1080/09502386.2011.600549

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“…It is vital for addressing the participation gap, or "the unequal access to the opportunities, experiences, skills, and knowledge that will prepare youths for full participation in the world of tomorrow" (Jenkins, 2009, p. xii). Also, participatory culture is fraught because corporate interests perpetuate the exploitation of youths through free labor built into the social expectations of participatory kid culture online (Driscoll & Gregg, 2011). As Emma's and Sara's experiences show, new media platforms such as YouTube can support participation in a reading community after formal education.…”

Section: Implications For Multiliteracies Research and Educationmentioning

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The Role of Affect in Adolescents’ Online Literacies: Participatory Pressures in BookTube Culture

Ehret¹,

Boegel²,

Manuel-Nekouei³

2018

J Adolescent & Adult Lit

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Outside of compulsory schooling, adolescents become more responsible for maintaining their reading lives together, which is consequential for educators wishing to foster student identities as lifelong readers, writers, and digital designers. The authors describe the role of affect in a youth‐driven, online participatory culture, BookTube, in which participants are largely young adults just beyond compulsory school age. Analysis draws on poststructural conceptions of affect as distinct from emotion to develop the concept of participatory pressures. Participatory pressures complicate understandings of youth‐generated online cultures, showing specifically how BookTube's aesthetic norms create and maintain feelings of pressure about what style and content count. At the same time, participatory pressures contribute to BookTubers’ development of individual styles that attract viewers, such as using humor in playfulness and social critique. Implications consider how literacy educators may better prepare youths for affective experiences of maintaining shared reading lives in online participatory cultures.

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Section: Implications For Multiliteracies Research and Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Affect in Adolescents’ Online Literacies: Participatory Pressures in BookTube Culture

Ehret¹,

Boegel²,

Manuel-Nekouei³

2018

J Adolescent & Adult Lit

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“…Another critique is from Nick Couldry (2011), who points out that the account of convergence should be more culturally and geographically contextualized. Other useful critiques are from feminist media scholars, who consider convergence as being embedded within contemporary unequal gender relations (Driscoll and Gregg 2011; Ouellette and Wilson 2011). Building upon these critiques of media convergence, I will focus on the possible articulations between two digital products, namely video games and online dating platforms.…”

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Video Games as Dating Platforms: Exploring Digital Intimacies through a Chinese Online Dancing Video Game

Liu

2017

Television & New Media

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In the relatively young field of new media studies, both video games and online dating platforms are identified as being important and popular genres of digital products, which are often discussed separately. This article argues that these two genres of digital products are not so much separate but entangled elements of the same processes of technological shifts in media industry, development of people’s online leisure activities, and the convergence of digital genres. To provide empirical evidence, this article examines a Chinese dancing video game, QQ Dazzling Dance (QQ Xuan Wu), which creatively juxtaposes these two genres of participatory digital culture and recognizes the analytical and critical values in doing so.

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“…The healing powers of sex are well known in Chinese medicine and starting to be investigated and proven in western medicine (Lindau, and Gavrilova, 2010;Wilms, 2010;Winn, 2005). A proliferation of networked online sexual sub-cultures and alternative porn and real-time offerings exist and intertwine in what Henry Jenkins (2006) calls "convergence culture" and others call "assemblages of social engagement with media" the lines between producer, consumer and fan have blurred (Driscoll and Gregg, 2011). How has this "convergence" or "assemblage" this melding of the virtual and the real, this conflation of producer and consumer, come to be in the field of porn tourism?…”

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Ping pong in Phuket: the intersections of tourism, porn and the future

Mars

Yeoman

McMahon‐Beattie

2017

JTF

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If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. Design/methodology/approach -This paper explores the intersections of tourism, porn and the future as a conceptual framework. Findings -Four intersections are derived from the conceptual framework. Intersection 1, the Future of Tourism, portrays the evolution of tourism and explores its technological future. Interaction 2, Porn in Tourism, distinguishes between soft-and hard-core porn tourism. Intersection 3, Portraying Porn as a Future Dimension, delves into futurism, science fiction and fantasy. The fourth intersection, the Future Gaze, conveys the thrust of the paper by exploring how technological advancement blends with authenticity and reality. Thus the porn tourist seeks both the visual and the visceral pleasures of desire. The paper concludes with four future gazes of porn tourism, The Allure of Porn, The Porn Bubble, Porn as Liminal Experience and Hardcore. Originality/value -The originality of this paper is that this is the first paper to systematically examine porn tourism beyond sex tourism overlaying with a futures dimension. Porn tourists actively seek to experience both visual and visceral pleasures. Tourism and pornography both begin with the gaze. The gaze is an integral component of futures thinking. Technology is changing us, making us smarter, driving our thirst for liminal experiences. Like the transition from silent movies to talking pictures the porn tourism experience of the future is likely to involve more of the bodily senses.

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Convergence Culture and the Legacy of Feminist Cultural Studies

Cited by 25 publications

References 21 publications

The Role of Affect in Adolescents’ Online Literacies: Participatory Pressures in BookTube Culture

The Role of Affect in Adolescents’ Online Literacies: Participatory Pressures in BookTube Culture

Video Games as Dating Platforms: Exploring Digital Intimacies through a Chinese Online Dancing Video Game

Ping pong in Phuket: the intersections of tourism, porn and the future

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