Jenkins on Participatory Culture

It’s good to revisit this definition in light of this week’s work:

“A participatory culture is a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, strong support for creating and sharing one’s creations, and some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices.A participatory culture is also one in which members believe their contributions matter, and feel some degree of social con- nection with one another (at the least they care what other people think about what they have created).”

From page 3 of Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century http://www.newmedialiteracies.org/files/working/NMLWhitePaper.pdf

This post is a reflection/response to questions posed at the Salzburg Global Seminar program Libraries and Museums in an Era of Participatory Culture, exploring the challenges, solutions and potential for participatory services within libraries and museums.

Join the conversation: https://tametheweb.com/2011/10/19/join-the-conversation-libraries-museums-in-an-era/

Special Thanks to the Salzburg Global Seminar and IMLS for the invitation to participate in this event.