Book Review: Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide

Abstract

MIT’s Deflorz Professor of Humanities Henry Jenkins has some good news: contemporary society may be a contested space where media institutions and individual consumers battle, but we should not fret. Out of this agon emerges a new culture, convergence culture. We should embrace it. With all the optimism of German philosopher Jurgen Habermas’s insistence the public sphere will vindicate rationalism as the best approach to social change, Jenkins provides a lucidaccount of how the media functions in Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide.