The Participatory Cultures Handbook - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415506093 ISBN 13: 9780415506090

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

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Review:

"From gaming to education, journalism, and criticism, this ambitious and exciting book covers the full gamut of the participatory culture world. An essential and very useful collection for anyone even remotely interested in the topic." ―Bryan Alexander, Senior Fellow, National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education

"Recommended. [A] solid entrée into deeper thinking about participatory culture." –CHOICE, B.S. John, Old Dominion University

About the Author:

Aaron Delwiche is an associate pofessor in the Department of Communication at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He teaches courses on hacking subcultures, transmedia storytelling and video-game design and criticism. His experiments with games in the classroom have been covered by publications ranging from Wired to The Guardian (UK). In 2009, with support from the Lennox Foundation, he organized the lecture series "reality Hackers: The Next Wave of Media Revolutionaries"and published an anthology of essays related to the series. 

Jennifer Jacobs Henderson is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Henderson is the author of the 2010 book Defending the Good News: The Jehovah’s Witnesses and Their Plan to Expand the First Amendment. She specializes in issues of media law, the ethics of media, and the use of participatory cultures for political and social action. For more than a decade, she has been researching how voices outside of American mainstream discourse have pressured the government to expand free speech protections.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0415506093
• ISBN 13: 9780415506090
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Delwiche Aaron