[blog] Henry "Dumbledore" Jenkins lends us praises!
Recently in a blog post entitled Dumbledore for a Day: The Things You Can Do in Second Life, Henry Jenkins shared his experiences during our recent wizard rock inpsired event Hogwarts Dance Party of Good and Evil focused around Harry Potter fandom. Henry also lends praise to Global Kids.
A while back, I shared with my blog readers my experiences in Teen Second Life, thanks to an organization called Global Kids. I've gotten a chance to work more closely with Barry Joseph, Rafi Santos, and others from the Global Kids organization over the past year or so and each encounter has left me even more impressed with their respect for their young participants and their imaginative use of virtual worlds to focus young people on issues impacting the real world.
Thanks Henry! To read more of the post, click here.
Also, Roland Legrand, within his blog Mixed-Realities, takes note of Henry's post and shares his thoughts on it and the event.
I have been watching a remarkable video of a talk by Professor Henry Jenkins, head of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies Department. He is the author of the book Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide and his talk was remarkable because it was held in the Teen Grid of Second Life and the subject was Fan Culture and how that phenomenon interacts with virtual storytelling but also with real world ethics. I found out about the video thanks to the New Worlds Notes.The distinguished professor discussed more specifically Harry Potter. People not only read the Harry Potter books, they also elaborate on them, expand, them, recreate the stories, like the professor did dressing up as professor Dumbledore in Second Life. Music is composed, clothes are being made, stories rewritten and acted out. Fan conventions gather worldwide.
Read the full post here.
